-applicable model of path-dependent fairness preferences, in which past experiences shape preferences, and we experimentally test the …' fairness concerns, making them more likely to accept transactions in which they receive a low share of the surplus. Consistent …

's lives and contribute to social instability. Even if political compromises based on social conventions as equity or economic … methods (Approval Voting and Borda Count) reduce the support for egoistic options and favor equity and efficiency, avoiding … extreme outcomes. Those methods differ in whether they favor equity or efficiency when the latter benefits a majority. Our …

redistribution decisions at the end of that period, in an environment where we keep fixed the sum of incomes over the period. First … effect of income inequality on redistribution decisions, we delve into the history behind one’s income to isolate the effect …

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 …

" fairness argument for no redistribution: the winner deserves all the earnings because these earnings were determined by his or …The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from … her performance. Our findings shed light on the present political debate on redistribution, by suggesting that people may …

differences in the interpretation of the context. We test this hypothesis by conducting two social dilemma experiments in the US …

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 …

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 …

inform the debate on the fairness of market outcomes by showing that the use of a competitive procedure can, by itself …