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A meritocratic origin of egalitarian behavior
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Möllerström, Johanna; Reme, … - 2019
The meritocratic fairness ideal implies that inequalities in earnings are regarded as fair only when they reflect differences in performance. Consequently, implementation of the meritocratic fairness ideal requires complete information about individual performances, but in practice, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145502
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A meritocratic origin of egalitarian behavior
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Möllerström, Johanna; Reme, … - 2019
The meritocratic fairness ideal implies that inequalities in earnings are regarded as fair only when they reflect differences in performance. Consequently, implementation of the meritocratic fairness ideal requires complete information about individual performances, but in practice, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007093
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Immoral Criminals? An Experimental Study of Social Preferences Among Prisoners
Birkeland, Sigbjørn - 2011
experiment with the behavior of a benchmark group recruited from the general population. We find a striking similarity in the … holds when the two groups interact. Data from a large internet experiment, matched with official criminal records, suggest … that our main finding from the lab experiment is not influenced by the additional scrutiny experienced by participants in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119713
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Social preferences in the lab : a comparison of students and a representative population
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Nygaard, Knut; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2011
Can lab experiments on student populations serve to identify the motivational forces present in society at large? We address this question by conducting, to our knowledge, the first study of social preferences that brings a nationally representative population into the lab, and we compare their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230868
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Social Preferences in the Lab : A Comparison of Students and a Representative Population
Cappelen, Alexander W. - 2011
Can lab experiments on student populations serve to identify the motivational forces present in society at large? We address this question by conducting, to our knowledge, the first study of social preferences that brings a nationally representative population into the lab, and we compare their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122414
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Rich meets poor : an international fairness experiment
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Moene, Karl Ove; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2008
conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted … directly with people in Uganda and Tanzania, two of the world's poorest countries. In this experiment, the participants were …. First, entitlement considerations are crucial in explaining the distributive behavior of rich people in the experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377115
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Social Preferences in the Lab : A Comparison of Students and a Representative Population
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Nygaard, Knut; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2015
We report from a lab experiment conducted with a sample of participants that is nationally representative for the adult …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014133001
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Second-Best Fairness Under Limited Information : The Trade-Off between False Positives and False Negatives
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Cappelen, Cornelius; Tungodden, … - 2018
In many important economic settings, limited information makes it impossible for decision makers to ensure that each individual gets what he or she deserves. Decision makers are then faced with the trade-off between giving some individuals more than they deserve, false positives, and giving some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014111716
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A Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behavior
Cappelen, Alexander W. - 2019
The meritocratic fairness ideal implies that inequalities in earnings are regarded as fair only when they reflect differences in performance. Consequently, implementation of the meritocratic fairness ideal requires complete information about individual performances, but in practice, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870627
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A Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behavior
Cappelen, Alexander W. - 2019
The meritocratic fairness ideal implies that inequalities in earnings are regarded as fair only when they reflect differences in performance. Consequently, implementation of the meritocratic fairness ideal requires complete information about individual performances, but in practice, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871320