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complementarity and how it is influenced by fairness concern and information transparency. We base our setup on a structured … value of the deal approximately half-half with the buyer as a normative fairness benchmark. The buyers, on the other hand …, did not have a demand for fairness that was based on a fairness benchmark. …
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While inequality in resource endowments has been shown to affect cooperation levels in groups, much of this evidence comes from studies of within-group inequality. In an online public goods experiment, we instead examine the effects of payoff-irrelevant inequality in resources between groups on...
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This study replicates and extends the work of Falk and Hermle (2018. “Relationship of Gender Differences in Preferences to Economic Development and Gender Equality.” Science 362 (6412): eaas9899), who hypothesized that gender differences in economic preferences (patience, altruism,...
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Concerns about fairness among countries remain significant obstacles to a stronger global climate treaty. This paper …
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An online survey experiment spanning 50 countries finds sizable improvements in tax morale when (a) the salience of anti-corruption efforts is increased and (b) citizens are allowed to voice their expenditure preferences to the government. These results hold very broadly across a uniquely large...
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In settings where other-regarding motives are likely to be (and some would argue, should be) at the forefront of our minds, how much of our behavior can still be explained by narrow pecuniary self-interest by itself? In an experiment where subjects are asked to vote between two income...
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axioms of Pareto principle, time consistency, and equity requiring society to reduce inequality regardless of the past. We … argue that responsibility for past choices should be taken into account and, thus, the equity axiom is not compelling. Then … we introduce another form of equity that takes the past into consideration and is compatible with time consistency. Using …
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Can differences in cognitive reflection explain other-regarding behavior? To test this, I use the three-item Cognitive … and a third-party punishment task. Subjects afterwards completed the three-item Cognitive Reflection Test. Results showed …
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common-pool resource dilemma game. In this article, we summarize the main tenets of EH and its previous predictions and test … account well for the observed fairness and cooperation in all the tested games. The impressive predictions of the theory … promoting fairness and cooperation in the discussed games is only marginal. Strikingly, the Golden Ratio, known for its …
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