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Preferences for redistribution and pensions : what can we learn from experiments?

Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Jan; Riedl, Arno - 2010

Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most people have a preference for redistribution that is not merely inspired by self-interest. Interestingly, little is known on how these preferences interact with preferences for...

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A nation-wide laboratory : examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative survey

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - 2003

the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany bycombining representative survey data … people s trust correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled … the Social Democratic Party or the Christian Democratic Party exhibit more trust. People above the age of 65 and those in …

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The many faces of human sociality : uncovering the distribution and stability of social preferences

Bruhin, Adrian; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2016

There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others' interests in decision making. This heterogeneity raises the question how one can parsimoniously model and characterize heterogeneity across several dimensions of social preferences while still being able to predict behavior...

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The many faces of human sociality : uncovering the distribution and stability of social preferences

Bruhin, Adrian; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2018

There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others' interests in decision making. This heterogeneity concerns the motivational intricacies as well as the strength of other-regarding behaviors, and raises the question how one can parsimoniously model and characterize...

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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence

Fehr, Ernst; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011

We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...

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Is strong reciprocity a maladaptation? : on the evolutionary foundations of human altruism

Fehr, Ernst; Henrich, Joseph - 2003

In recent years a large number of experimental studies have documented the existence of strong reciprocity among humans. Strong reciprocity means that people willingly repay gifts and punish the violation of cooperation and fairness norms even in anonymous one-shot encounters with genetically...

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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...

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The missing type : where are the inequality averse (students)?

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...

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