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According to the accountability principle a person's fair allocation takes into account the input-relevant variables she can influence, like effort, but not the variables she cannot influence, like a randomly assigned exogenous factor. This study is based on a real effort-task experiment, where...
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Which inequalities among individuals are considered unjust? This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to study distributive choices dealing with arbitrarily unequal initial endowments. In a three-person distribution problem where subjects either know or do not know their...
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This paper investigates whether language priming activates different cultural identities and norms associated with the … language communicated; bilingual subjects are given Chinese instructions in the Chinese treatment and English instructions in … hypothesis that languages are associated with cultural frames and that communicating in a particular language increases the …
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I conduct an experiment to assess whether majority voting on a nonbinding sharing norm affects subsequent behavior in a dictator game. In a baseline treatment, subjects play a one shot dictator game. In a voting treatment, subjects are first placed behind a 'veil of ignorance' and vote on the...
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Although one may hope to achieve equality of stated profits without enforcing it, one may not trust in such voluntary … equality seeking and rather try to impose rules (of bidding) guaranteeing it. Our axiomatic approach is based on envy-free net … trades according to bids which, together with the equality requirement, characterize the first-prize auction and fair …
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This paper reports an experiment designed to elicit social preferences over income compensation schemes, where income differences between subjects have two independent components: one due to chosen effort and the other due to random chance. These differences can be compensated through social...
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This paper reports an experiment designed to elicit social preferences over income compensation schemes, where income differences between subjects have two independent components: one due to chosen effort and the other due to random chance. These differences can be compensated through social...
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conflicts over the consideration of equality, effort or efficiency for the distribution of joint earnings. Normative conflict is …
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This article defines in a precise manner three different mechanisms to achieve impartiality in distributive justice and …
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paper by Becker, Häger, and Heufer (BHH, 2013), in which we introduce a "notion of distributive justice" by which … individuals trade off equality and efficiency. The purpose of the theoretical framework is to explain preferences in dictator … experiments by a combination of selfishness and concerns for distributive justice. Most participants conform very well with the …
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