This study evaluates people’s concerns for distributive fairness (equality of outcomes and payoffs to those worse-off) and reciprocal fairness (receiving what one is due based on one’s past actions) utilizing dictator, ultimatum, and trust games. In the dictator games we classify...

This paper investigates the relationship between heterogeneous social preferences and charitable giving under alternative prices of giving and types of subsidies (matching and rebates). We compare within-person decision-making in alternative contexts to determine whether there is carry over in...

This chapter investigates the relationship between heterogeneous social preferences and charitable giving under alternative prices of giving and types of subsidies. Using 10 allocation decisions, we categorize participants’ social preferences as self-interested, inequity averse, or social...

This paper incorporates compassion into social preferences and tracks individuals' choices over ten allocation decisions, categorizing participants' behavior more precisely than previous work. We provide important evidence relevant to the on-going debate as to whether social preferences are...