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Do White and Black Americans differ in their response to fair versus unfair treatment, and do these reactions depend on whether treatment is intentional? We study an ultimatum game in which we non-deceptively vary three dimensions: racial identities of participants, offer inequality, and whether...
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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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In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences...
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In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences...
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In settings where other-regarding motives are likely to be (and some would argue, should be) at the forefront of our minds, how much of our behavior can still be explained by narrow pecuniary self-interest by itself? In an experiment where subjects are asked to vote between two income...
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Fairness preferences fundamentally affect individual behavior and play an important role in shaping social and … they attach to fairness considerations. In this paper, we study the role of family background in explaining these … heterogeneities in fairness preferences. In particular, we examine how socioeconomic background relates to fairness views and to how …
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We experimentally investigate whether people generally perceive inheritance as effort-induced or luck-induced. By randomly matched two strangers in a lab setting, we test whether the sources of opportunity handed down from the 'testator' subjects determines later redistributive decisions among...
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differentiate between fairness that is stimulated by intentional based motives, distributional motives, and fairness considerations … preferences ; fairness ; intentional based preferences ; social welfare ; ultimatum bargaining …
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We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion paper by Becker, Häger, and Heufer (BHH,...
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