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and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce …
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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 … experiment we record agents' heart rate variability. Our findings provide evidence of a link between perceived unfairness and … health, and fairness of pay …
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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 individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...
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