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Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...
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information they process, and they are compared in terms of efficiency and perceived allocative and procedural fairness. …
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Offer and the Exit variant - in terms of fairness and efficiency. To assess the fairness of the allocations obtained by … elicited in a hypothetical fairness question, and we evaluate them from an impartial point of view using spectators' responses …
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redistribution. We present results from a large-scale online experiment with more than 4,000 participants. The experiment features a …
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We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an ingroup or an out-group...
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"good behavior", or do "good experts" post "fair prices"? To answer this question we propose and test a model with three …
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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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majority voting on redistribution? Fairness preferences are relevant for redistribution outcomes only if fair-minded voters are … pivotal. Pivotality, in turn, depends on the structure of income classes. We experimentally study voting on redistribution … to matter if the "rich" are in majority. With a "poor" majority, we find that redistribution outcomes look as if all …
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