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health, and fairness of pay. -- fairness ; social preferences ; inequality ; heart rate variability ; health ; experiments … variability therefore uncovers a mechanism of how perceptions of unfairness can adversely affect cardiovascular health. We further … test potential adverse health effects of unfair pay using data from a large representative data set. Complementary to our …
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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 … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …
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While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...
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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 … norm in its favor and the weak side agrees: Stated fairness is a compromise with power. Second, in most situations …
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groups perceive a particular exchange as fair. We investigate racial differences in fairness standards using preferences for … acceptance rates or aversion to inequality. However, we uncover racial differences in ultimatum game behavior on other dimensions … distribution. We also find that blacks are more sensitive to unfair proposals from other blacks. -- racial differences ; inequality …
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decision makers in the family and the society. We test these alternative hypotheses running Dictators experiments in Italy, a …
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behavioral economics, positing a generalized aversion to inequality that is stronger when one's own payoff is lower - rather than …
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Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most … they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness? How does … this depend on the type of redistribution involved? -- redistribution ; fairness ; pension ; insurance ; experiment …
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and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually …
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inequality, such as differences in effort, luck, or opportunities. We study how fairness views and the extent of redistribution …The steady increase in inequality over the past decades has revived a lively debate about what can be considered a fair … inequality. We focus on situations in which the rich have potentially acquired their fortunes by means of cheating. In an …
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