In this paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common … pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without …

; parochialism ; experiments with children and adolescents …

Debates about affirmative action often revolve around fairness. Accordingly, we document substantial heterogeneity in … the fairness perception of various affirmative action policies. But do these differences translate into different … low productivity individuals is not perceived as fairer than an absence of affirmative action. Higher fairness perceptions …

, which we denote "social curiosity." Our analysis is within the context of the inequality aversion model of Fehr and Schmidt … (1999). Using data from laboratory experiments with sequential public goods games, we estimate social preferences at the …