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Rothenhäusler, Dominik; Schweizer, Nikolaus; Szech, Nora - 2016

This paper analyzes how moral costs affect individual support of morally difficult group decisions. We study a threshold public good game with moral costs. Motivated by recent empirical findings, we assume that these costs are heterogeneous and consist of three parts. The first one is a standard...

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Contribution-based grouping under noise

Nax, Heinrich H.; Murphy, Ryan O.; Duca, Stefano; … - In: Games 8 (2017) 4, pp. 1-23

Many real-world mechanisms are “noisy” or “fuzzy”, that is the institutions in place to implement them operate with non-negligible degrees of imprecision and error. This observation raises the more general question of whether mechanisms that work in theory are also robust to more...

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Perceived Fairness and Consequences of Affirmative Action Policies

Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2020

Debates about affirmative action often revolve around fairness. Accordingly, we document substantial heterogeneity in … the fairness perception of various affirmative action policies. But do these differences translate into different …, either due to bad luck (discrimination), low productivity, or choice of a short working time. Higher fairness perceptions …

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Responding to (Un)Reasonable Requests

Pelligra, Vittorio; Reggiani, Tommaso; Zizzo, Daniel John - 2016

We consider the notions of static and dynamic reasonableness of requests in a trust game experiment. We vary systematically the experimental norm of what is expected from trustees to return to trustors, both in terms of level of each request and in terms of sequence of the requests. Static...

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Strategic Choices for Redistribution and the Veil of Ignorance : Theory and Experimental Evidence

Gerber, Anke - 2013

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution by feet and then learn their productivity and invest. We vary the individuals' information about their productivities at the time when they choose a distribution rule and find...

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Strategic choices for redistribution and the veil of ignorance : theory and experimental evidence

Gerber, Anke; Nicklisch, Andreas; Voigt, Stefan - 2013

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution by feet and then learn their productivity and invest. We vary the individuals ́information about their productivities at the time when they choose a distribution rule and find...

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Strategic Choices for Redistribution and the Veil of Ignorance : Theory and Experimental Evidence

Gerber, Anke; Nicklisch, Andreas; Voigt, Stefan - 2014

We provide theoretical conjectures about and experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on a distribution rule with their feet and then invest and redistribute total income according to the chosen rule. We vary the individuals’ information about...

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Distributive Justice with Production and the Social Contract. An Experimental Study

Degli Antoni, Giacomo; Faillo, Marco; … - 2016

Drawing on the theoretical and experimental literature on distributive justice, we put some assumptions of the contractarian argument to an empirical test by means of an experiment which investigates the influence that explicit agreement under the veil of ignorance may have on individuals’...

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Unfair pay and health

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo E. - 2016

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative panel data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...

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Cardiovascular consequences of unfair pay

Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo Emilio; … - 2011

health, and fairness of pay. …

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