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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 …
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, but previously understudied, situation where there is uncertainty about whether inequality is reflecting performance or … they risk making when redistributing under uncertainty. Our laboratory experiments show, in line with our model, that … uncertainty about the source of inequality provides a strong egalitarian pull on the behavior of meritocrats. In addition, the …
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This paper studies how individual behavior is affected by moral reflection in a dictator game with production, and the informational value of self-reported data on fairness. We nd that making individuals reflect on fairness before they play the dictator game has a moderate effect on the weight...
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results of the first experiment, to our knowledge, to study fairness views about risk-taking, specifically whether such views …
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The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from winner-take-all reward structures. We find that the majority of participants consider extreme income inequality generated in winner-take-all situations as fair, independent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011969198
The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from winner-take-all reward structures. We find that the majority of participants consider extreme income inequality generated in winner-take-all situations as fair, independent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917090
, but previously understudied, situation where there is uncertainty about whether inequality is reflecting performance or … they risk making when redistributing under uncertainty. Our laboratory experiments show, in line with our model, that … uncertainty about the source of inequality provides a strong egalitarian pull on the behavior of meritocrats. In addition, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145502
positive transfers depends on the choice set even when there is no uncertainty about entitlements, and that this choice …
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or females are lagging behind. We study this question in a novel large-scale distributive experiment involving more than …
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The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme Income inequalities arising from winner-take-all reward structures. We find that the majority of participants consider extreme income inequality generated in winner-take-all situations as fair, independent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919795