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Games that appear to be independent, involving none of the same players, may be related by emotions of reciprocity between the members of the same groups. In the real world, individuals are members of groups and want to reward or punish those groups whose members have been kind or unkind to...
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correlated with giving in the absence of risk. We find limited support for existing models of ex-post and ex-ante fairness. Our …
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component of utility). These approaches are applied in various ways to an experiment on fairness conducted by Cappelen et al … modelling and estimation ; model evaluation ; individual behaviour ; fairness …
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resulting inequality is perceived differently and how this affects redistribution. Across treatments, we compare a spectator …'s redistribution of two workers' earnings. If workers do not compete in a zero-sum setting, average redistribution decreases. In a … of redistribution and are more likely to be Democrats. …
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Meritocracies aspire to reward effort and hard work but promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances they were born into. The choice to work hard is, however, often shaped by circumstances. This study investigates whether people's merit judgments are sensitive to this endogeneity of...
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Meritocracies aspire to reward hard work and promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances into which they were born. However, circumstances often shape the choice to work hard. I show that people's merit judgments are "shallow" and insensitive to this effect. They hold others...
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Offer and the Exit variant - in terms of fairness and efficiency. To assess the fairness of the allocations obtained by … elicited in a hypothetical fairness question, and we evaluate them from an impartial point of view using spectators' responses …
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We experimentally investigate multiple notions of equity in ultimatum bargaining with asymmetric outside options …. Building on the generalized equity principle formulated by Selten (1978), we derive three different equity rules that can … explain 43% of all offers. Our within-subject design further allows us to show that proposers use different equity rules and …
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In this paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common …
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How malleable are peopleś fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is … still unclear whether and to what extent peopleś allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory … experiment whether peopleś fairness ideals vary with respect to changes in the order in which they undertake two allocation tasks …
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