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Group polarization in the team dictator game reconsidered
Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - 2006 - This version: 8 August 2006
While most papers_new on team decision-making find teams to behave more selfish, less trusting and less altruistic than individuals, Cason and Mui (1997) report that teams are more altruistic than individuals in a dictator game. Using a within-subjects design we re-examine group polarization by...
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The impact of lobbying on the allocation of political authority
Falconieri, Sonia - 2001
This paper studies the internal organizational design of politicalinstitutions in presence of lobbying. We consider a legislature ascomposed of two bodies: the floor and an informational committee. Thefloor has the (formal) power to choose the policy to be implemented.The policy outcome is ex...
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Redistributive politics and the tyranny of the middle class
Zoutman, Floris T.; Jacobs, Bas; Jongen, Egbert L. W. - 2016
The Netherlands has a unique tradition in which all major Dutch political parties provide CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis with highly detailed proposals for the tax-benefit system in every national election. This information allows us to quantitatively measure the...
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That's just : not fair ; gender differences in notions of justice
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015
of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance …In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination … experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same …
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Born that way : beliefs about genetics' importance and redistribution preferences
Pogliano, Andrea - 2024
Meritocratic fairness justifies inequality when it stems from performance. Yet performance is influenced by one's genetics. I investigate whether individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in generating performance inequality. In an incentivized...
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Group polarization in the team dictator game reconsidered
Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - 2006
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Rich meets poor : an international fairness experiment
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Moene, Karl Ove; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2008
Why do people in rich countries not transfer more of their income to people in the world's poorest countries? To study this question and the relative importance of needs, entitlements, and nationality in people's social preferences, we conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in...
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Measuring tastes for equity and aggregate wealth behind the veil of ignorance
Heufer, Jan; Shachat, Jason M.; Xu, Yan - 2018
We propose an instrument to measure individuals' social preferences regarding equity and efficiency behind a veil of ignorance. We pair portfolio and wealth distribution choice problems which have a common budget set. For a given bundle, the distribution over an individual's wealth is the same...
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Aversion to health inequality : pure, income-related and income-caused
Robson, Matthew; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Ourti, Tom - 2023
We design a novel experiment to identify aversion to pure (univariate) health inequality separately from aversion to income-related and income-caused health inequality. Participants allocate resources to determine health of individuals. Identification comes from random variation in resource...
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Cooperation in an overlapping generations experiment
Offerman, Theo; Potters, Jan; Verbon, Harry A. A. - 1998
Recent theoretical work shows that folk theorems can be developed for infiniteoverlapping generations games. Cooperation in such games can be sustained as aNash equilibrium. Besides the efficient cooperative equilibrium there is alsothe inefficient non-cooperative equilibrium. This paper...
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