schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a … rational responses to incentives, are influenced by egalitarian, equity and strategic considerations. …

schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a … rational responses to incentives, are influenced by egalitarian, equity and strategic considerations. …

schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a … rational responses to incentives, are influenced by egalitarian, equity and strategic considerations. …

experimental democracy. We design a two-period experiment in which subjects first choose a distributional scheme by majority voting … the effect of social immobility on choosing distributional regimes the experiment is conducted with and without a social … Treatment, most groups opt for complete equality in both rounds, while in the unequal weight setting the initial choice of …

, but also should have no efficiency benefit under standard assumptions of self-interested agents. We experimentally …

the norm itself. In a second study, we demonstrate that the amount of economic incentives needed to close the cooperation …

We study a laboratory social dilemma game in which incentives to steal from others lead to the socially inefficient … theft and most groups achieve much greater efficiency in the presence of communication. Ease of identifying who has engaged …