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Public officials' treatment of minority clients

Adman, Per; Taghizadeh, Jonas Larsson - 2020

The aim of this paper is to investigate the occurrence of discrimination based on ethnicity in public officials' treatment of welfare clients. Previous research has confirmed the existence of ethnic discrimination, but we argue that further investigations are needed. Field experiments in the...

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Misperceiving Economic Success: Experimental Evidence on Meritocratic Beliefs and Inequality Acceptance

Fehr, Dietmar; Vollmann, Martin - 2022

Meritocratic beliefs are often invoked as justification of inequality. We provide evidence on how meritocratic beliefs … are shaped by economic status and how they contribute to the moral justification of inequality. In a large-scale survey …. Exploiting exogenous variation in meritocratic beliefs in a two-stage analysis shows that beliefs affect how much inequality …

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Don't Stop Believin' – Heterogeneous Updating of Intergenerational Mobility Perceptions across Income Groups

Schwarz, Anna; Warum, Philipp - 2023

This article presents a novel explanation why demand for redistribution on average does not respond to information on low intergenerational mobility. Building on insights from behavioral economics, we expect that incentives to update perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the...

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A Field Study of Chinese Migrant Workers' Attitudes toward Risks, Strategic Uncertainty, and Competitiveness

Hao, Li; Houser, Daniel; Mao, Lei; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2014

Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk …

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Thanks but No Thanks: A New Policy to Reduce Land Conflict

Dufwenberg, Martin; Köhlin, Gunnar; Martinsson, Peter; … - 2014

Land conflicts in developing countries are costly. An important policy goal is to create respect for borders. This often involves mandatory, expensive interventions. We propose a new policy design, which in theory promotes neighborly relations at low cost. A salient feature is the option to...

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Individual and group cheating behavior: A field experiment with adolescents

Chytilová, Julie; Korbel, Václav - 2014

Dishonest activities with negative consequences for others and society are often undertaken by individuals as well as groups of people. In this paper, we use a field experiment among students aged 11-16 years to study whether there is a difference between individual and group cheating behavior....

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The (True) Legacy of Two Really Existing Economic Systems

Ariely, Dan; Garcia-Rada, Ximena; Hornuf, Lars; Mann, … - 2014

By running an experiment among Germans collecting their passports or ID cards in the citizen centers of Berlin, we find that individuals with an East German family background cheat significantly more on an abstract task than those with a West German family background. The longer individuals were...

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Norm enforcement in the city: A natural field experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Nikiforakis, Nikos - 2012

Extensive evidence from laboratory experiments indicates that many individuals are willing to use costly punishment to enforce social norms, even in one-shot interactions. However, there appears to be little evidence in the literature of such behavior in the field. We study the propensity to...

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Do religious beliefs explain preferences for income redistribution? Experimental evidence

Neustadt, Ilja - 2010

Due to the mixed empirical evidence bearing on the economic determinants, beliefs have been at the center of attention of research into preferences for income redistribution. We elicit preferences for income redistribution through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland and...

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Economic well-being, social mobility, and preferences for income redistribution: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment

Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010

In this paper, preferences for income redistribution in Switzerland are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) performed in 2008. In addition to the amount of redistribution as a share of GDP, attributes also included its uses (working poor, the unemployed, old-age pensioners,...

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