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less inclined to favor redistribution and they are more likely to self-assess themselves as right-wing than all the other …
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We elicit distributional fairness ideals of impartial spectators using an incentivized economic experiment in a large … and heterogeneous sample of the German population. Our dataset allows us to relate our experimental data on fairness …-leaning voters are more likely to be efficiency-minded; and vi) young and highly-educated participants hold di.erent fairness ideals …
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We elicit distributional fairness ideals of impartial spectators using an incentivized elicitation in a large and …-educated participants hold different fairness ideals than the rest of the population. Moreover, we show that the fairness ideals predict … preferences for redistribution and intervention by the government, as well as actual charitable giving, even after controlling for …
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We use a large and heterogeneous sample of the Danish population to investigate the importance of distributional preferences for behavior in a public good game and a trust game. We find robust evidence for the significant explanatory power of distributional preferences. In fact, compared to...
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-level utility functions with two parameters that govern the trade-offs between equity and efficiency and giving to self and to other … on social preferences. As a side result, I find that the weight on self, but not the individual equity-efficiency trade …
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a novel test to evaluate the relationship between social status and ethical behavior. We successfully prime a large …
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drivers of support for rent control are fairness considerations and profit motives. Our study also highlights the importance …
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pessimistic perceptions change neither revealed distributional preferences nor support for greater redistribution or education …
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