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Mine, ours or yours? : unintended framing effects in dictator games

Bergh, Andreas; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2018 - This version: March 28, 2018

This paper reports results from a classroom dictator game comparing the effects of three different sets of standard instructions. As was shown by Oxoby and Spraggon (2008), inducing a feeling of entitlement - one subject earning the endowment - strongly affects allocations in dictator games...

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Luck, choice and responsibility : an experimental study of fairness views

Möllerström, Johanna; Reme, Bjørn-Atle; Sørensen, … - 2014

inequalities, but many follow an interior allocation rule previously unaccounted for by the fairness views in the literature. These …

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A meritocratic origin of egalitarian behavior

Cappelen, Alexander W.; Möllerström, Johanna; Reme, … - 2019

The meritocratic fairness ideal implies that inequalities in earnings are regarded as fair only when they reflect … differences in performance. Consequently, implementation of the meritocratic fairness ideal requires complete information about …

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Fairness in winner-take-all markets

Bartling, Björn; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Ekström, Mathias - 2018

" fairness argument for no redistribution: the winner deserves all the earnings because these earnings were determined by his or …The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from … her performance. Our findings shed light on the present political debate on redistribution, by suggesting that people may …

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Every man for himself! : gender, norms and survival in maritime disasters

Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar - 2012

Since the sinking of the Titanic, there has been a widespread belief that the social norm of 'women and children first' gives women a survival advantage over men in maritime disasters, and that captains and crew give priority to passengers. We analyze a database of 18 maritime disasters spanning...

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Sealed bid auctions vs.ascending bid auctions : an experimental study

Andersson, Christer; Andersson, Ola; Andersson, Tommy - 2011

This paper considers the sealed bid and ascending auction, which both identifies the minimum Walrasian equilibrium prices and where truthful preference revelation constitutes an equilibrium. Even though these auction formats share many theoretical properties, there are behavioral aspects that...

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Stress reactions cannot explain the gender gap in willingness to compete

Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Möllerström, Johanna - 2015

Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many people experience competitive contexts as stressful and previous research has documented that men and women sometimes react differently to acute stressors. We use two...

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Deciding for others reduces loss aversion

Andersson, Ola; Holm, Håkan J.; Tyran, Jean-Robert; … - 2013

We study risk taking on behalf of others, both with and without potential losses. A large-scale incentivized experiment is conducted with subjects randomly drawn from the Danish population. On average, decision makers take the same risks for other people as for themselves when losses are...

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Risk aversion relates to cognitive ability : fact or fiction?

Andersson, Ola; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengström, Erik; … - 2013

Recent experimental studies suggest that risk aversion is negatively related to cognitive ability. In this paper we report evidence that this relation might be spurious. We recruit a large subject pool drawn from the general Danish population for our experiment. By presenting subjects with...

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Robust inference in risk elicitation tasks

Andersson, Ola; Holm, Håkan J.; Tyran, Jean-Robert; … - 2020

Recent experimental evidence suggests that noisy behavior correlates strongly with personal characteristics. Since decision noise leads to bias in most elicitation tasks, there is a risk of falsely interpreting noise-driven relationships as preference driven. This puts previous studies that...

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