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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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This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment … their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise if an agent's reward expectation is not met. Throughout the … experiment we record agents' heart rate variability. Our findings provide evidence of a link between perceived unfairness and …
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Evidence on behavior of experts in credence goods markets raises an important causality issue: Do "fair prices" induce "good behavior", or do "good experts" post "fair prices"? To answer this question we propose and test a model with three seller types: "the good" choose fair prices and behave...
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particular, we analyze how horizontal fairness concerns affect performance and efficiency in an environment characterized by … contractual incompleteness. In our experiment, one principal is matched with two agents. The principal pays equal wages in one …
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statistical tests for fairness within well-defined income distribution generating processes and a well specified notion of … fairness. We find that the likelihood ratio (LR) test for fairness versus unfairness within two such processes are proportional … their values differently – to compare them to critical values for a test of the null hypothesis of fairness, or to use them …
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incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the existence of reference-dependent fairness concerns … among a substantial share of the population into account. Theory shows and experiments confirm, that even if fairness … fairness on effort, derive predictions from our approach for entry-level wages and incumbent workers' wages, confront these …
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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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We investigate the impact of wage comparisons for worker productivity. We present three studies which all use three-person gift-exchange experiments. Consistent with Akerlof and Yellen's (1990) fair wage-effort hypothesis we find that disadvantageous wage discrimination leads to lower efforts...
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Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a … relationship between risk attitudes and inequality aversion survives the inclusion of individual characteristics (i.e. income …, education, and gender) that may be correlated with both risk attitudes and inequality aversion …
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The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect effort provision in teams. Our experimental results demonstrate that unequal rewards can potentially...
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