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Holm, Håkan J.; Daielson, Anders - 2005

the individual and thereby assessing the limits of these fairness concerns. This study reports on Trust game experiments …While many studies have shown that fairness matters few efforts have been made to find out how important fairness is to … that 90 percent of subjects that had demonstrated fairness ambitions were willing to let down their counterparts if …

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Every man for himself: Gender, norms and survival in martime disasters

Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar - 2012

Since the sinking of the Titanic, there has been a widespread belief that the social norm of 'women and children first' gives women a survival advantage over men in maritime disasters, and that captains and crew give priority to passengers. We analyze a database of 18 maritime disasters spanning...

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Strategy-Proof Package Assignment

Erlanson, Albin; Szwagrzak, Karol - 2013

We examine the strategy-proof allocation of multiple divisible and indivisible resources; an application is the assignment of packages of tasks, workloads, and compensations among the members of an organization. We find that any allocation mechanism obtained by maximizing a separably concave...

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Should we sustain? And if so, sustain what? Consumption or the quality of life?

Llavador, Humberto; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - 2012

Sustainability has been largely replaced by discounted utilitarianism in contemporary climate-change economics. Our approach rejuvenates sustainability by expanding the conception of the quality of life, along the lines of the UN Human Development Reports, to include not only consumption, but...

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What do poor women want? Public employment or cash transfers? Lessons from Argentina

Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2012

The literature on public employment policies such as the job guarantee (JG) and the employer of last resort (ELR) often emphasizes their macroeconomic stabilization effects. But carefully designed and implemented policies like these can also have profound social transformative effects. In...

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Equality, equity and incentives: An experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin G.; Putterman, Louis; … - 2010

We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a 2x2 design, subjects either vote on or exogenously...

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Truth by consensus: A theoretical and empirical investigation

Camera, Gabriele; Garratt, Rod; Monnet, Cyril - 2024

Truthful reporting about the realization of a publicly observed event cannot be guaranteed by a consensus process. This fact, which we establish theoretically and verify empirically, holds true even if some individuals are compelled to tell the truth, regardless of economic incentives. We...

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Mechanism design and intentions

Bierbrauer, Felix; Netzer, Nick - 2014

We introduce intention-based social preferences into a mechanism design framework with independent private values and quasilinear payoffs. For the case where the designer has no information about the intensity of social preferences, we provide conditions under which mechanisms which have been...

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Mechanim design and intentions

Bierbrauer, Felix; Netzer, Nick - 2012

We introduce intention-based social preferences into a Bayesian mechanism design framework. We first show that, under common knowledge of social preferences, any tension between material efficiency, incentive compatibility, and voluntary participation can be resolved. Hence, famous impossibility...

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Communication in asymmetric group competition over public goods

Zhang, Jingjing - 2012

This paper examines whether and how cheap talk communication can facilitate within-group coordination when two unequal sized groups compete for a prize that is shared equally among members of the winning group, regardless of their (costly) contributions to the group's success. We find that...

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