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We show that people manipulate their attitudes towards ambiguity when doing so allows them to behave more self-interestedly. In a "dictator" decision subject chose between a "fair" and an "unfair" choice. By choosing the latter, dictators increase their own allocation by decreasing the...
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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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for redistribution. The findings are supported by the respondents' fairness concerns. Estimated effects exhibit … substantial heterogeneity. There is systematic variation among fairness concerns with respect to income and health, which are … favor of redistribution. Results suggest that income- and health-dependent fairness concerns exist …
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Equity in health has to be distinguished from equity in access to health care, or equity in the distribution of health care resources. We take as a working definition of health for our purposes the number of quality adjusted life years that a person may expect to enjoy over his or her lifetime....
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Recent models of economic fairness assume that at least some people are motivated to reduce economic differences … concern for fairness extends beyond egocentric comparisons of economic distributions …
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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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This paper delivers a step toward a naturalistic foundation of the social contract. While mainstream social contract theory is based on an original position model that is defined in an aprioristic way, we endogenize its key elements, i.e., develop them out of the individuals’ moral common...
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Departures from pure self interest in economic experiments have recently inspired models of "social preferences". We conduct experiments on simple two-person and three-person games with binary choices that test these theories more directly than the array of games conventionally considered. Our...
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, fairness considerations, economic beliefs and several other individual factors drive individual preferences for tax rate … fairness considerations. …
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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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