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By now there is substantial experimental evidence that people make use of "moral wiggle room" (Dana et al., 2007), that is, they tend to exploit moral excuses for selfish behavior. However, this evidence is limited to dictator games. In our experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether...
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subjects are exposed to random shocks. We find that aggregate behavior is ex-post and ex-ante inequality averse, but also that … the other. The first presentation draws attention to inequality in payoffs, the second to collective risk. We find that … conclude that ex-post inequality aversion is the primary concern in the evaluation of social lotteries while collective risk is …
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For decades, experimental economics has been very interested in behavior that could be characterized as practicing solidarity (although the term is rarely used). Solidarity is a key concept in Catholic Social Teaching. This paper builds a bridge between these two endeavors that, thus far, had...
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subjects are exposed to random shocks. We find that aggregate behavior is ex-post and ex-ante inequality averse, but also that … the other. The first presentation draws attention to inequality in payoffs, the second to collective risk. We find that … conclude that ex-post inequality aversion is the primary concern in the evaluation of social lotteries while collective risk is …
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We analyze reciprocal behavior when moral wiggle room exists. Dana et al. (2007) show that giving in a dictator game is only partly due to distributional preferences as the giving rate drops when situational excuses for selfish behavior are provided. Our binary trust game closely follows their...
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for me, payoff for the other). This draws attention to inequality in payoffs and thus gives weight to fairness concerns … also depends on whether the lottery gives equal payoffs ex-post. Experiments usually present payoffs side-by-side (payoff …
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In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination … experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same … men and women in dictator experiments are explained by differences in their notion of justice and not by different levels …
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In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination … experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same … men and women in dictator experiments are explained by differences in their notion of justice and not by different levels …
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of social preferences shows that a high weight given to considerations of ex-ante inequality goes some way towards …
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, altruism and concern for inequality. We find that decision makers who are selected democratically are generally more efficiency …
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