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In this paper we analyse how fairness considerations, in particular considerations of just income distribution, affect … individuals make a trade-off between economic gains and fairness considerations when they make decisions about tax evasion. Taken …
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This paper studies the pro-social preferences of criminals by comparing the behavior of a group of prisoners in a lab experiment with the behavior of a benchmark group recruited from the general population. We find a striking similarity in the importance the two groups attach to pro-social...
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particular the utilitarian view that the government should try to maximize the sum of individual welfare. This welfarist … basis of their consequences for individual welfare, and thus do not assign any intrinsic importance to how a specific …
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informational value of self-reported data on fairness. We nd that making individuals reflect on fairness before they play the … dictator game has a moderate effect on the weight attached to fairness in distributive choices, and a strong effect on what … who deviate from their self- reported fairness ideal, we do not find much support for the hypothesis that people are self …
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Fairness preferences fundamentally affect individual behavior and play an important role in shaping social and … they attach to fairness considerations. In this paper, we study the role of family background in explaining these … heterogeneities in fairness preferences. In particular, we examine how socioeconomic background relates to fairness views and to how …
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how the COVID-19 pandemic causally affects people’s solidarity and fairness. We randomly manipulate whether respondents … support for redistribution and welfare policies …
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conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted …
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In many important economic settings, limited information makes it impossible for decision makers to ensure that each individual gets what he or she deserves. Decision makers are then faced with the trade-off between giving some individuals more than they deserve, false positives, and giving some...
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. This paper reports the results from the first experiment, to our knowledge, to study fairness views about risk …-taking, where the main aim is to examine whether people's fairness considerations mainly focus on ex ante opportunities or ex post … same set of fairness considerations …
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It has been shown that participants in the dictator game are less willing to give money to the other participant when their choice set also includes the option to take money. We examine whether this effect is due to the choice set providing a signal about entitlements in a setting where...
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