How do we persuade people to part with money they feel they have rightly earned? We conducted a dyadic experiment (N=1,986) where luck determined which of the players' performance counted toward winning the game. Despite luck playing a large part, we found strong evidence of justified...

We investigate how payment modes influenced charitable giving behaviors before and after the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic in a laboratory experiment. In a real donation game, subjects use cash or contactless mobile payment to make real donations. We showed that contactless mobile...

We experimentally investigate whether people generally perceive inheritance as effort-induced or luck-induced. By randomly matched two strangers in a lab setting, we test whether the sources of opportunity handed down from the 'testator' subjects determines later redistributive decisions among...

With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging and the vaccination program still rolling out, there continues to be an immediate need for public health officials to better understand the mechanisms behind the deep and perpetual divide over face masks in America. Using a random sample of Americans...

Incentive theory has paid limited attention to workers’ identities. In this paper, we conduct experiments exploring the interaction between identity and incentives. We construct workgroups which are either homogeneous or heterogeneous in members' identities and examine their productivity under...