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Many experimental studies report that economics students tend to act more selfishly than students of other disciplines, a finding that received widespread public and professional attention. Two main explanations that the existing literature offers for the differences found in the behavior...
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inform the debate on the fairness of market outcomes by showing that the use of a competitive procedure can, by itself …
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carbon emission reduction than redistribution (inequality reduction by transfers). However, those countries who contribute …-distribution decreases or does not affect the carbon emissions of the biggest global polluters. Redistribution, on the other hand, exhibits …
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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 …
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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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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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" 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 …
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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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-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 …
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