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People's fairness preferences are an important constraint for what constitutes an acceptable economic transaction, yet … play an important role in shaping perceptions of fairness. Buyers used to high market prices, for example, are more likely …-dependent fairness preferences—either based on endogenous fairness reference points or based on shifts in salience—that can account for …
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In settings with uncertainty, tension exists between ex ante and ex post notions of fairness (e.g., equal opportunity … findings suggest that the most common attitude toward fairness involves a time-consistent preference for applying naive …
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groups perceive a particular exchange as fair. We investigate racial differences in fairness standards using preferences for …
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We present a dictator game experiment where the recipients are local charities that serve the poor. Donors consist of approximately 1000 participants from a nationally representative respondent panel that is maintained by a private survey research firm, Knowledge Networks. We randomly manipulate...
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We investigate determinants of private and public generosity to Katrina victims using an artifactual field experiment. In this experiment, respondents from the general population viewed a short audiovisual presentation that manipulated respondents' perceptions of the income, race, and...
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We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment to identify parents' preferences for investing in their children. The experiment exogenously varied the short-run returns to educational investments to identify how much parents care about maximizing total household earnings, minimizing cross-sibling...
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-known commitment problem by introducing communication. Allowing the upstream firm to chat privately with each downstream firm reduces … total offered quantity from near the Cournot level (observed in the absence of communication) halfway toward the monopoly … bargaining advantage from open communication that all of the gains from monopolizing the market accrue to them. A simple …
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fairness to their consumers. The theory relies on two psychological assumptions. First, customers care about the fairness of …
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effect is driven by comparisons with higher-paid peers—suggesting concerns about fairness. Separations appear fairly …
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What is inequality in health? Are economists' standard tools for measuring income inequality relevant or useful for measuring it? Does income protect health and does income inequality endanger it? I discuss two different concepts of health inequality and relate each of them to the literature on...
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