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We implement the Rawlsian thought experiment of a veil of ignorance in the laboratory which introduces risk and possibly social preferences. We find that both men and women react to the risk introduced by the veil of ignorance. Only the women additionally exhibit social preferences that reflect...
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they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness? How does … this depend on the type of redistribution involved? -- redistribution ; fairness ; pension ; insurance ; experiment …
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they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness? How does … this depend on the type of redistribution involved?. -- redistribution ; fairness ; pension ; insurance ; experiment …
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We propose an instrument to measure individuals' social preferences regarding equity and efficiency behind a veil of ignorance. We pair portfolio and wealth distribution choice problems which have a common budget set. For a given bundle, the distribution over an individual's wealth is the same...
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(e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By …
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(e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By …
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(e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By …
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How malleable are peopleś fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is … still unclear whether and to what extent peopleś allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory … experiment whether peopleś fairness ideals vary with respect to changes in the order in which they undertake two allocation tasks …
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Although different approaches and methods have been used to measure inequality aversion, there remains no consensus about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample of more than 1800 first-year undergraduate economics and business students in Uruguay to...
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rationales: (1) balance (comparison, matching), often related to equality and fairness, or to the desire to avoid moral … associate efficiency, fairness, and the intrinsic quality of social relations. …
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