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The fundamental properties, stability and predictive power of distributional preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2023
Parsimony is a desirable feature of economic models but almost all human behaviors are characterized by vast individual variation that appears to defy parsimony. How much parsimony do we need to give up to capture the fundamental aspects of a population's distributional preferences and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014417651
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Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Sennt, Julien - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164122
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Fair wages and effort provision: Combining evidence from the lab and the field
Cohn, Alain; Fehr, Ernst; Goette, Lorenz - 2013
The presence of workers who reciprocate higher wages with greater effort can have important consequences for labor markets. Knowledge about the determinants of reciprocal effort choices is, however, incomplete. We investigate the role of fairness perceptions and social preferences in workers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316923
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468203
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Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics
Epper, Thomas; Fehr, Ernst; Senn, Julien - 2020
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Support for redistribution may also be affected by altruistic and egalitarian preferences, but knowledge about the … redistribution in a broad sample of the Swiss population. Based on a recently developed non-parametric clustering procedure, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012155363
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Driving Forces of Informal Sanctions
Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001
This paper examines the determinants of informal sanctions by a large number of experiments.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005846433
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Does market interaction erode moral values?
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Özdemir, Yagiz - 2020
The widespread use of markets leads to unprecedented material well-being in many societies. We study whether market interaction, as a side effect, erodes moral values. An encompassing understanding of the virtues and vices of markets, including their possible impact on moral values, is necessary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012284782
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The missing type: Where are the inequality averse (students)?
Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien; Fehr, Ernst - 2023
The empirical evidence on the existence of social preferences-or lack thereof-is predominantly based on student samples. Yet, knowledge about whether these findings can be extended to the general population is still scarce. In this paper, we compare the distribution of social preferences in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014333770
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Social preferences across subject pools: Students vs. general population
Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien; Fehr, Ernst - 2024
The empirical evidence on the existence of social preferences-or lack thereof-is predominantly based on student samples. Yet, knowledge about whether these findings can be extended to the general population is still scarce. In this paper, we compare the distribution of social preferences in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468191
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Tastes, castes, and culture: The influence of society on preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Hoff, Karla - 2011
Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316875