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Not guilty? : another look at the nature and nurture of economics students
Haucap, Justus; Just, Tobias - 2003
value the fairness of the price system, and examine how deeply such differences are rooted in their course of studies. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010503705
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Not guilty? Another look at the nature and nurture of economics students
Haucap, Justus; Just, Tobias - 2003
value the fairness of the price system, and examine how deeply such differences are rooted in their course of studies. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301744
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Not Guilty? : Another Look at the Nature and Nurture of Economics Students
Haucap, Justus; Just, Tobias - 2003
In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263396
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Not Guilty? Another Look at the Nature and Nurture of Economics Students
Haucap, Justus; Just, Tobias - 2003
In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077234
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Direct Tests of Individual Preferences for Efficiency and Equity
Cox, James C.; Sadiraj, Vjollca - 2011
Departures from "economic man" behavior in many games in which fairness is a salient characteristic are now well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185562
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Meta-Analysis of Inequality Aversion Estimates
Nunnari, Salvatore; Pozzi, Massimiliano - 2022
We conduct an interdisciplinary meta-analysis to aggregate the knowledge from empirical estimates of inequality aversion reported from 1999 to 2022. In particular, we examine 85 estimates of disadvantageous inequality aversion (or envy) and advantageous inequality aversion (or guilt) from 26...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080048
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Understanding Social Preference with Simple Tests
Charness, Gary; Rabin, Matthew - 2001
Departures from self-interest in economic experiments have recently inspired models of ?social preferences?. We design a range of simple experimental games that test these theories more directly than existing experiments. Our experiments show that subjects are more concerned with increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159132
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The econometric modeling of social preferences
Conte, Anna; Moffatt, Peter G. - 2010
component of utility). These approaches are applied in various ways to an experiment on fairness conducted by Cappelen et al … modelling and estimation ; model evaluation ; individual behaviour ; fairness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003980540
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Discrimination and In-Group Favoritism in a Citywide Trust Experiment
Falk, Armin; Zehnder, Christian - 2021
This paper provides field experimental evidence on the prevalence and determinants of discrimination and in-group favoritism in trust decisions. We observe choices of about 1,000 inhabitants of the city of Zurich who take part in a sequential trust game, in which first movers can condition their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317159
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Inequality indices as tests of fairness
Kanbur, Ravi; Snell, Andy - 2017
statistical tests for fairness within well-defined income distribution generating processes and a well specified notion of … fairness. We find that the likelihood ratio (LR) test for fairness versus unfairness within two such processes are proportional … their values differently – to compare them to critical values for a test of the null hypothesis of fairness, or to use them …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641764