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When Inequality is Good for Groups : The Moderating Role of Fairness

Hart, Einav - 2019

Many societies today are experiencing growing inequality in terms of wealth, income, health, education, resources or opportunities, trends that have negative effects upon well-being, trust, and motivation. We investigated whether inequalities –– particularly those perceived as fair ––...

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Increasing Altruistic and Cooperative Behaviour with Simple Moral Nudges

Capraro, Valerio - 2019

The conflict between pro-self and pro-social behaviour is at the core of many key problems of our time, as, for example, the reduction of air pollution and the redistribution of scarce resources. For the well-being of our societies, it is thus crucial to find mechanisms to promote pro-social...

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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth

Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective …

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Lotteries vs. all-pay auctions in fair and biased contests

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2012

The form of contests for a single fixed prize can be determined by a designer who maximizes the contestants' efforts. This paper establishes that, under common knowledge of the two asymmetric contestants' prize valuations, a fair Tullock-type endogenously determined lottery is always superior to...

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Fair Allocations in an Overlapping Generations Economy

Dubey, Ram Sewak - 2018

This paper investigates fair (i.e., envy free and efficient) allocations in an overlapping generations economy without production and with two - period lived agents. We show that there exists a conflict between no-envy and efficiency when all generations have identical preferences. This conflict...

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Limiting the Leader : Fairness Concerns in Team Production with Leader-Determined Monitoring

Boosey, Luke; Isaac, R. Mark; Ramalingam, Abhijit - 2021

We use a laboratory experiment to investigate the extent to which leaders---faced with opportunistic incentives---employ monitoring to improve team production. Participants are assigned to teams, with one person appointed as the leader. The leader has the power to commit to a monitoring option,...

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On the malleability of fairness ideals : order effects in partial and impartial allocation tasks

Dengler-Roscher, Kathrin; Montinari, Natalia; … - 2015

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...

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Intentions Versus Outcomes : Cooperation and Fairness in a Sequential Prisoner's Dilemma with Nature

Ridinger, Garret - 2016

This paper investigates the importance of concerns about intentions and outcomes in a sequential prisoner’s dilemma game with nature. In the game, there is a chance that the first mover’s choice is reversed. This allows the separation of intended actions from the resulting outcomes....

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Maximal Manipulation in Fair Allocation

Fujinaka, Yuji - 2012

We consider the problems of fairly allocating indivisible objects and money. The objective of the present study is to examine strategic manipulation under envy-free solutions. We show that each individual obtains the welfare level of his "optimal" envy-free allocation by maximally manipulating...

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Gender Differences in Altruism on Mechanical Turk : Expectations and Actual Behaviour

Brañas-Garza, Pablo - 2018

Whether or not there are gender differences in altruistic behaviour in Dictator Game experiments has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Earlier studies found women to be more altruistic than men. However, this conclusion has been challenged by more recent accounts, which have...

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