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inequality, such as differences in effort, luck, or opportunities. We study how fairness views and the extent of redistribution … experiment, we let third parties redistribute resources between two stakeholders who could earn money either by choosing a safe … outcome. Although third parties cannot verify cheating, we find that the mere suspicion of cheating changes fairness views of …
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attributions of responsibility for neediness from other explanations. We implement our design in a lab experiment we conducted with … the role of responsibility for neediness for informal financial support of individuals facing negative income shocks based … for giving and that the effects depend on donors' risk preferences but that attributions of responsibility play a …
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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample of more than 1800 first-year undergraduate …
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We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...
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Debates about affirmative action often revolve around fairness. Accordingly, we document substantial heterogeneity in … the fairness perception of various affirmative action policies. But do these differences translate into different … consequences? In a laboratory experiment, we study three different quota rules that favor individuals whose performance is low …
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present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions … ; gender ; experiment …
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We show with a laboratory experiment that individuals adjust their moral principles to the situation and to their … the fairness and unfairness of allocations in three different scenarios (a Dictator game, an Ultimatum game, and a Trust … same session we elicit again their principles regarding the fairness and unfairness of allocations in the same three …
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This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment … experiment we record agents' heart rate variability. Our findings provide evidence of a link between perceived unfairness and … health, and fairness of pay. -- fairness ; social preferences ; inequality ; heart rate variability ; health ; experiments …
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groups perceive a particular exchange as fair. We investigate racial differences in fairness standards using preferences for …
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