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Luck, choice and responsibility : an experimental study of fairness views
Möllerström, Johanna; Reme, Bjørn-Atle; Sørensen, … - 2014
We conduct a laboratory experiment where third-party spectators can redistribute resources between two agents, thereby offsetting the consequences of controllable and uncontrollable luck. Some spectators go to the limits and equalize all or no inequalities, but many follow an interior allocation...
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"It's not about the money. It's about sending a message!" : unpacking the components of revenge
Molńar, András; Chaudhry, Shereen J.; Loewenstein, … - 2020
We examine whether belief-based preferences - caring about what transgressors believe - play a crucial role in punishment decisions: Do punishers want to make sure that transgressors understand why they are being punished, and is this desire to affect beliefs often prioritized over distributive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012166019
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Inequality indices as tests of fairness
Kanbur, Ravi; Snell, Andy - 2017
Standard income inequality indices can be interpreted as a measure of welfare loss entailed in departures from equality of outcomes, for egalitarian social welfare functions defined on the distribution of outcomes. But such a welfare interpretation has been criticized for a long time on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641764
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Racial differences in inequality aversion : evidence from real world respondents in the ultimatum game
Griffin, John David; Nickerson, David W.; Wozniak, … - 2011
The distinct historical and cultural experiences of American blacks and whites may influence whether members of those groups perceive a particular exchange as fair. We investigate racial differences in fairness standards using preferences for equal treatment in the ultimatum game, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233933
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Lower and upper bounds of unfair inequality : theory and evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2011
Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310036
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Lower and upper bounds of unfair inequality : theory and evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2011
Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269249
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Long term trends in fair and unfair inequality in the United States
Hussey, Andrew; Jetter, Michael - 2014
This paper analyzes the microeconomic sources of wage inequality in the United States from 1967-2012. Decomposing inequality into factors categorized by degree of personal responsibility, we find that education is able to explain more than twice as much of inequality today as 45 years ago....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409801
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008811006
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Whatś the monetary value of distributive justice
Corneo, Giacomo (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper proposes a model that can be implemented to estimate the willingness to pay for distributive justice … distributive justice from fiscal data and the estimated coefficients of a probit regression. Using this formula and data from a … 1998 Gallup Social Audit, we find that on average the monetary value of justice for US households amounts to about one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003526223
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Long Term Trends in Fair and Unfair Inequality in the United States
Hussey, Andrew - 2014
This paper analyzes the microeconomic sources of wage inequality in the United States from 1967-2012. Decomposing inequality into factors categorized by degree of personal responsibility, we find that education is able to explain more than twice as much of inequality today as 45 years ago....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046231