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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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In this paper, we investigate individuals' investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to learn and potentially improve their status (rank). We...
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Multidimensional welfare analysis has recently been revived by money-metric measures based on explicit fairness …
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We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...
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We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation … novel test as to whether there are types of players who behave consistently with their elicited preferences. We find clear …
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By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently comparable over time and show great stability despite...
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occupational wage inequality and their demand for redistribution. Most importantly, the framework explicitly allows for the … perceptions of how wages are determined in reality all simultaneously influence the demand for redistribution. Finally, I show … that subjective inequality measures and the demand for redistribution are substantially significant predictors of both …
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A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We … ground acceleration registered during each shock with survey data about individual opinions on redistribution we show that … inequalities should be levelled by redistribution. The shocks, however, are not all alike. We find that only the last three shakes …
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Other-regarding preferences are central for the ability to solve collective action problems and thus for society's welfare. We study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is related to parental background. Using binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into...
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Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality – such as the Big Five and...
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