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Who is in favor of affirmative action? : representative evidence from an experiment and a survey

Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023

(e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By …

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Does willful ignorance deflect punishment? : an experimental study

Bartling, Björn; Engl, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013

This paper studies whether people can avoid punishment by remaining willfully ignorant about possible negative consequences of their actions for others. We employ a laboratory experiment, using modified dictator games in which a dictator can remain willfully ignorant about the payoff...

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Behavioral constraints on pricing : experimental evidence on price discrimination and customer antagonism

Leibbrandt, Andreas - 2016

In this study, we investigate behavioral constraints on pricing by using a novel laboratory experiment in which actual consumption goods are traded. We test different models and provide several insights into pricing and reactions to price discrimination. First, we identify the extent to which...

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What makes a price fair? : an experimental study of transaction experience and endogenous fairnesss views

Herz, Holger; Taubinsky, Dmitry - 2016

People's fairness preferences are an important constraint for what constitutes an acceptable economic transaction, yet … arising from previous transactions play an important role in shaping perceptions of fairness. Buyers used to high market … two classes of models of path-dependent fairness preferences - either based on endogenous fairness reference points or …

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A theory of reciprocity

Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001

This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...

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Giving in the face of risk

Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno; Tran, Giang - 2016

correlated with giving in the absence of risk. We find limited support for existing models of ex-post and ex-ante fairness. Our …

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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy

Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009

Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...

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Surviving the Titanic disaster : economic, natural and social determinants

Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2009

The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third...

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The importance of peers for compliance with norms of fair sharing

Gächter, Simon; Gerhards, Leonie; Nosenzo, Daniele - 2017

A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in asocial decision settings, where individuals are observed to act in isolation from each other. In...

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Appropriating the commons : a theoretical explanation

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001

In this paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common …

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