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Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics

Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …

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Beliefs about inequality and the nature of support for redistribution

Henkel, Aljosha; Fehr, Ernst; Senn, Julien; Epper, Thomas - 2024

inequality for support for redistribution? We study these questions in a staggered experiment with a representative sample of the … redistribution. These results hide, however, important heterogeneity because the effects of beliefs about inequality for demand for … redistribution are preference-dependent: only affluent inequality averse individuals, but not the selfish and altruistic ones …

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Chance versus choice : eliciting attitudes to fair compensations

Bone, John; Crosetto, Paolo; Hey, John Denis; Pasca, Carmen - 2013

This paper reports an experiment designed to elicit social preferences over income compensation schemes, where income differences between subjects have two independent components: one due to chosen effort and the other due to random chance. These differences can be compensated through social...

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Let the market decide : an experimental study of competition and fairness

Bartling, Björn; Grieder, Manuel; Zehnder, Christian - 2014

inform the debate on the fairness of market outcomes by showing that the use of a competitive procedure can, by itself …

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Let the market decide : an experimental study of competition and fairness

Bartling, Björn; Grieder, Manuel; Zehnder, Christian - 2014

inform the debate on the fairness of market outcomes by showing that the use of a competitive procedure can, by itself …

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Meta-analysis of inequality aversion estimates

Nunnari, Salvatore; Pozzi, Maximilian Joseph - 2022

We conduct an interdisciplinary meta-analysis to aggregate the knowledge from empirical estimates of inequality aversion reported from 1999 to 2022. In particular, we examine 85 estimates of disadvantageous inequality aversion (or envy) and advantageous inequality aversion (or guilt) from 26...

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Social preferences under risk : minimizing collective risk vs. reducing ex-post inequality

Gaudeul, Alexia - 2016

We refine the understanding of individual preferences across social lotteries, whereby the payoffs of a pair of subjects are exposed to random shocks. We find that aggregate behavior is ex-post and ex-ante inequality averse, but also that there is a wide variety of individual preferences and...

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That's just - not fair : gender differences in notions of justice

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015

In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences...

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The role of equality and equity in social preferences

Fehr, Ernst; Naef, Michael; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2005

Engelmann and Strobel (AER 2004) question the relevance of inequity aversion in simple dictator game experiments claiming that a combination of a preference for efficiency and a Rawlsian motive for helping the least well-off is more important than inequity aversion. We show that these results...

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Measuring tastes for equity and aggregate wealth behind the veil of ignorance

Heufer, Jan; Shachat, Jason M.; Xu, Yan - 2018

We propose an instrument to measure individuals' social preferences regarding equity and efficiency behind a veil of ignorance. We pair portfolio and wealth distribution choice problems which have a common budget set. For a given bundle, the distribution over an individual's wealth is the same...

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