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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...

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Your place in the world relative income and global inequality

Fehr, Dietmar; Mollerstrom, Johanna; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2021

There is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, but only little … evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conduct a two-year, face … those misperceptions does not affect their support for policies related to global inequality. …

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Rank versus inequality : does gender composition matter?

Kim, Duk Gyoo; Riegel, Max - 2022

This study investigates the influence of gender composition on allocation decisions involving a rank-inequality … tradeoff. In a laboratory experiment, participants chose to either alleviate inequality by relinquishing their current relative … rank or exacerbate inequality by maintaining their current rank. Two essential features of the experiment are: 1 …

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Is the price right? : the role of morals, ideology, and tradeoff thinking in explaining reactions to price surges

Elías, Julio; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2022

Price surges often generate social disapproval and requests for regulation and price controls, but these interventions may cause inefficiencies and shortages. To study how individuals perceive and reason about sudden price increases for different products under different policy regimes, we...

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The lifecycle of affirmative action policies and its effect on effort and sabotage behavior

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Danilov, Anastasia; Kocher, Martin - 2023

A main goal of affirmative action (AA) policies is to enable disadvantaged groups to compete with their privileged counterparts. Existing theoretical and empirical research documents that incorporating AA can result in both more egalitarian outcomes and higher exerted efforts. However, the...

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Moral motive selection in the lying-dictator game

Barron, Kai; Stüber, Robert; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2022

hypothesis using a laboratory experiment that induces a conflict between two of the most-studied moral motives: fairness and …

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The unequal consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic : evidence from a large representative German population survey

Immel, Lea; Neumeier, Florian; Peichl, Andreas - 2021

We employ panel data from three waves of a large representative population survey carried out between June and November 2020 to assess in what regards and to what extent different groups of the German population are affected by the COVID- 19 crisis. Using common factor analysis, we demonstrate...

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Political preferences for redistribution in Sweden

Bastani, Spencer; Lundberg, Jacob - 2016

We examine preferences for redistribution inherent in Swedish tax policy 1971-2012 using the inverse optimal tax approach. The income distribution is carefully characterized with the help of administrative register data and we employ behavioral elasticities reflecting the perceived distortionary...

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Cooperation and mistrust in relational contracts

Herz, Holger; Schmutzler, Armin; Volk, André - 2016

Work and trade relationships are often governed by relational contracts, in which incentives for cooperative action today stem from the prospective future benefits of the relationship. In this paper, we study how reductions in clarity about the financial consequences of actions, induced by...

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Statistical power of within and between-subjects designs in economic experiments

Bellemare, Charles; Bissonette, Luc; Kröger, Sabine - 2014

usefulness of the approach in the context of field experiments on gift exchange. Our results suggest that a BS design requires …

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