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Strategic Choices for Redistribution and the Veil of Ignorance : Theory and Experimental Evidence
Gerber, Anke - 2013
We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution … the time when they choose a distribution rule and find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than … under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than …
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(Not) everyone can be a winner : the role of payoff interdependence for redistribution
Schaube, Sebastian; Strang, Louis Mick - 2022 - This version: April 6, 2022
resulting inequality is perceived differently and how this affects redistribution. Across treatments, we compare a spectator …'s redistribution of two workers' earnings. If workers do not compete in a zero-sum setting, average redistribution decreases. In a … of redistribution and are more likely to be Democrats. …
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Strategic Choices for Redistribution and the Veil of Ignorance : Theory and Experimental Evidence
Gerber, Anke; Nicklisch, Andreas; Voigt, Stefan - 2014
find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than in the glare of full information. However, the scope … of redistribution is less sensitive to the degree of uncertainty than predicted by a model of selfish and rational … expected utility maximizers. For all degrees of uncertainty, we find a coexistence of libertarianism and redistribution as well …
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Individual notions of distributive justice and relative economic status
Barr, Abigail; Burns, Justine; Miller, Luis; Shaw, Ingrid - 2011
We present two experiments designed to investigate whether individuals' notions of distributive justice are associated with their relative (within-society) economic status. Each participant played a specially designed four-person dictator game under one of two treatments, under one initial...
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Welfare stigma in the lab : evidence of social signaling
Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2017
Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design exogenously varies the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on...
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Welfare stigma in the lab : evidence of social signaling
Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2016
A puzzle of the modern welfare state is that a large fraction of social benefits is not taken up. Using a laboratory experiment, we present evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces the take-up of a redistributive transfer by 30 percentage points. We build a...
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Does payoff equity facilitate coordination? : a test of Schelling's conjecture
López-Pérez, Raúl; Pintér, Ágnes; Kiss, Hubert J. - 2013
Starting from Schelling (1960), several game theorists have conjectured that payoff equity might facilitate coordination in normal-form games with multiple equilibria - the more equitable equilibrium might be selected either because fairness makes it focal or because many individuals dislike...
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The role of equality and equity in social preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Naef, Michael; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2005
Engelmann and Strobel (AER 2004) question the relevance of inequity aversion in simple dictator game experiments claiming that a combination of a preference for efficiency and a Rawlsian motive for helping the least well-off is more important than inequity aversion. We show that these results...
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Inefficiency and social exclusion in a coalition formation game : experimental evidence
Okada, Akira; Riedl, Arno - 1999
This paper reports the results of experiments involving a 3-person coalition formation game with an ultimatum bargaining character. The grand coalition was always the efficient coalition decision, whereas the values of the 2-person coalitions are varied such that they lead to an efficiency loss...
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Incorporating fairness motives into the impulse balance equilibrium and quantal response equilibrium concepts : an application to 2x2 games
Tavoni, Alessandro - 2009
Substantial evidence has accumulated in recent empirical works on the limited ability of the Nash equilibrium to rationalize observed behavior in many classes of games played by experimental subjects. This realization has led to several attempts aimed at finding tractable equilibrium concepts...
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