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While many studies have shown that fairness matters few efforts have been made to find out how important fairness is to … the individual and thereby assessing the limits of these fairness concerns. This study reports on Trust game experiments … that 90 percent of subjects that had demonstrated fairness ambitions were willing to let down their counterparts if …
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How malleable are people's fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is … still unclear whether and to what extent people's allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory … experiment whether people's fairness ideals vary with respect to changes in the order in which they undertake two allocation …
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This paper studies whether people can avoid punishment by remaining willfully ignorant about possible negative consequences of their actions for others. We employ a laboratory experiment, using modified dictator games in which a dictator can remain willfully ignorant about the payoff...
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hypothesis using a laboratory experiment that induces a conflict between two of the most-studied moral motives: fairness and …
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The empirical evidence suggests that parents use inter vivos gifts (i.e., transfers of tangible and financial property) to compensate less well off children whereas post mortem bequests are divided equally among siblings. We study a theoretical model assuming, first, that the amounts given is...
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In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...
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Prior research demonstrates a willingness to incur costs to punish norm violators. But, how strong are the motives underlying such acts? Will people rely on "excuses" to avoid acting on costly punishment intentions, as with other costly pro-social acts? In a laboratory experiment, we find that...
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Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can … shading. To analyze fairness perceptions associated with competitive mechanisms, we run laboratory experiments where a single …
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I explore the effects of a preference for fairness in the division of housework between two spouses in two different … process and the degree of fairness consideration matter for policy outcomes and discuss three policy measures in relation to …
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The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from …" fairness argument for no redistribution: the winner deserves all the earnings because these earnings were determined by his or …
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