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Consistent comparisons of attainment and shortfall inequality: A critical examination
Bosmans K.G.M. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2013
An inequality measure is consistent if it ranks distributions the same irrespective of whether health quantities are represented in terms of attainment or shortfalls. This consistency property severely restricts the set of admissible inequality measures. We show that, within a more general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734868
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Unstructured Bargaining over an Endogenously Produced Surplus and Fairness Ideals – An Experiment
Orland, Andreas; Roos, Michael W.M. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
entitlement-related fairness ideals might be relevant. In our experiment we first elicit subjects’ fairness ideals using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778646
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Unstructured Bargaining over an Endogenously Produced Surplus and Fairness Ideals – An Experiment
Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Poulsen, Odile; Roos, Michael W.M. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
entitlement-related fairness ideals might be relevant. In our experiment we first elicit subjects’ fairness ideals using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010696523
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Justice under Uncertainty
Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2013
An important element for the public support of policies is their perceived justice. At the same time most policy … choices have uncertain outcomes. We report the results of a first experiment investigating just allocations of resources when … their own risk preferences. The observed allocations are consistent with four different views of justice under uncertainty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877816
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Distributive and reciprocal fairness: What can we learn from the heterogeneity of social preferences?
Kamas, Linda; Preston, Anne - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 3, pp. 538-553
This study evaluates people’s concerns for distributive fairness (equality of outcomes and payoffs to those worse-off) and reciprocal fairness (receiving what one is due based on one’s past actions) using dictator, ultimatum, and trust games. In the dictator games we classify individuals’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010870874
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Double Standards: Social Preferences and Moral Biases
Croson, Rachel; Konow, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
describes a simple experiment that decomposes behavior into these three forces and examines their interactions without the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616927
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Justice under uncertainty
Riedl A.M.; Cettolin E. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2013
An important element for the public support of policies is their perceived justice. At the same time most policy … choices have uncertain outcomes. We report the results of a first experiment investigating just allocations of resources when … their own risk preferences. The observed allocations are consistent with four different views of justice under uncertainty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734860
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Just luck: an experimental study of risk taking and fairness
Cappelen, Alexander W; Konow, James; Sorensen, Erik O; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
results of the first experiment, to our knowledge, to study fairness views about risk-taking, specifically whether such views …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560053
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Social preferences and lying aversion in children
Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2013
While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010858030
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Are teams less inequality averse than individuals ?
He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2014
We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010858037