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This paper studies the pro-social preferences of criminals by comparing the behavior of a group of prisoners in a lab experiment with the behavior of a benchmark group recruited from the general population. We find a striking similarity in the importance the two groups attach to pro-social...
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informational value of self-reported data on fairness. We nd that making individuals reflect on fairness before they play the … dictator game has a moderate effect on the weight attached to fairness in distributive choices, and a strong effect on what … who deviate from their self- reported fairness ideal, we do not find much support for the hypothesis that people are self …
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It has been shown that participants in the dictator game are less willing to give money to the other participant when their choice set also includes the option to take money. We examine whether this effect is due to the choice set providing a signal about entitlements in a setting where...
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female participants. A large set of additional treatments establishes that the gender bias reflects statistical fairness …
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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 …, but previously understudied, situation where there is uncertainty about whether inequality is reflecting performance or …
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The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme Income inequalities arising from … winner-take-all reward structures. We find that the majority of participants consider extreme income inequality generated in …” fairness argument for no redistribution: the winner deserves all the earnings because these earnings were determined by his or …
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We review an asymmetric auction experiment. Based on Plum (1992) private valuations of the two bidders are independently drawn from distinct but commonly known distributions, one of which stochastically dominating the other. We test the qualitative properties of that model of asymmetric...
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In this paper we provide new evidence showing that fair behavior is intuitive to most people. We find a strong association between a short response time and fair behavior in the dictator game. This association is robust to controls that take account of the fact that response time might be...
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In many important economic settings, limited information makes it impossible for decision makers to ensure that each individual gets what he or she deserves. Decision makers are then faced with the trade-off between giving some individuals more than they deserve, false positives, and giving some...
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The standard economic approach to tax policy has to a large extent relied on welfarist theories of justice, in particular the utilitarian view that the government should try to maximize the sum of individual welfare. This welfarist framework has proved a productive point of departure for much...
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