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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 …

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The desire to influence others : conference paper

Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Schröder, Marina - 2014

We introduce the give-or-destroy game that allows us to fully elicit an individual s social preference schedule. We find that about one third of the population exhibits both pro-social and anti-social preferences that are independent of payoff comparisons with those who are affected. We call...

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Jon Elster und das Problem lokaler Gerechtigkeit

Pies, Ingo; Viebranz, Jörg - 2007

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Arbeiten von Jon Elster zum Problem lokaler Gerechtigkeit. Das Thema dieser Arbeiten sind Rationierungsentscheidungen. Es geht um die Allokation und Distribution knapper Zuteilungsgüter, also etwa um die Vergabe von Kindergarten- oder Studienplätzen, die Zuweisung...

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Fair Enough? Minimum Wage Effects on Fair Wages

Koenig, Johannes - 2020

Minimum wages aim to raise wages for low-wage workers, but how do they affect fair wageperceptions? Using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data, we show that fair wages are basi-cally linearly related with paid wages prior to the German minimum wage introduction in2015. After the introduction, this...

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Don't tax me? Determinants of individual attitudes toward progressive taxation

Heinemann, Friedrich; Hennighausen, Tanja - 2010

, fairness considerations, economic beliefs and several other individual factors drive individual preferences for tax rate … fairness considerations. …

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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

Envy Freeness in Experimental Fair Division Problems

Herreiner, Dorothea K.; Puppe, Clemens - 2004

In the recent experimental literature several social preference models have been suggested that address observed behavior not reducible to the pursuit of self-interest. Inequality aversion is one such model where preferences are distributional. Frequently, envy is suggested as the underlying...

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Moral Norms in a Partly Compliant Society

Kranz, Sebastian - 2006

This paper analyses competition of moral norms and institutions in a society where a fixed share of people unconditionally complies with norms and the remaining people act selfishly. Whether a person is a norm-complier or selfish is private knowledge. A model of voting-by-feet shows that those...

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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...

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Driving forces behind informal sanctions

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2005

theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted … between different fairness principles. Fairness theories that are based on the assumption that players compare their own … the defectors. Fairness theories assuming that players aim to minimize payoff inequalities cannot explain the fact that …

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