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How property shapes distributional preferences
Fabbri, Marco; Bigoni, Maria - 2021
We study how distributional preferences are affected by a major property rights reform that transformed informal use-rights over land traditionally characterizing rural Beninese villages in a system akin to private ownership. The design combines the randomized control-trial implementation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648526
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How property shapes distributional preferences
Fabbri, Marco; Bigoni, Maria - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012594307
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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 experiment in the US, we show that success causes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013384890
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Religion and tradition in conflict: Experimentally testing the power of social norms to invalidate religious law
Engel, Christoph; Heine, Klaus; Naseer, Shaheen - 2021
Often, religion, law and tradition co-evolve. Religious precepts shape social practice, which translates into law. Yet this harmony is not universal. The Sharia guarantees daughters their share in the family estate. Yet in Pakistan, this rule clashes with tradition. While the country was jointly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012659964
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Religion and tradition in conflict : experimentally testing the power of social norms to invalidate religious law
Engel, Christoph; Heine, Klaus; Naseer, Shaheen - 2021
Often, religion, law and tradition co-evolve. Religious precepts shape social practice, which translates into law. Yet this harmony is not universal. The Sharia guarantees daughters their share in the family estate. Yet in Pakistan, this rule clashes with tradition. While the country was jointly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584085
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Religion and Tradition in Conflict. Experimentally Testing the Power of Social Norms to Invalidate Religious Law
Engel, Christoph; Heine, Klaus; Naseer, Shaheen - 2021
Often, religion, law and tradition co-evolve. Religious precepts shape social practice, which translates into law. Yet this harmony is not universal. The Sharia guarantees daughters their share in the family estate. Yet in Pakistan, this rule clashes with tradition. While the country was jointly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225065
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How Property Shapes Distributional Preferences
Fabbri, Marco; Bigoni, Maria - 2022
We study how distributional preferences are affected by a major property rights reform that transformed informal use-rights over land traditionally characterizing rural Beninese villages in a system akin to private ownership. The design combines the randomized control-trial implementation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084070
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Lying for Efficiency or Fairness?
Lien, Jaimie W. - 2020
of social image and reputation concerns. Our study allows us to observe how individual preferences over fairness and … tend to tell efficient lies on behalf of others. However, among those with a strong preference for fairness in allocations … with own-payoff consequence, lying on behalf of fairness concerns is less apparent in the data. The empirical patterns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836018
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Tax Morale and Fairness in Conflict - An Experiment
Engel, Christoph; Mittone, Luigi; Morreale, Azzurra - 2019
Arguably, for many citizens the perceived expected disutility from sanctions is smaller than the monetary gain from tax evasion. Nevertheless most people pay their taxes most of the time. In a lab experiment, we show that the willingness to pay taxes even absent enforcement is indeed pronounced....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014107943
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Preferences for redistribution - a cross-country study in fairness
Isaksson, Ann-Sofie; Lindskog, Annika - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007
self interest concerns, and an input based concept of fairness captured by the effects of beliefs about the causes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771199