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Andre, Peter - 2023

Meritocracies aspire to reward hard work and promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances into which they were born. However, circumstances often shape the choice to work hard. I show that people's merit judgments are "shallow" and insensitive to this effect. They hold others...

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Shallow meritocracy: an experiment on fairness views

Andre, Peter - 2021

Meritocracies aspire to reward effort and hard work but promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances they were born into. The choice to work hard is, however, often shaped by circumstances. This study investigates whether people's merit judgments are sensitive to this endogeneity of...

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An ultimatum game with multidimensional response strategies

Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria; Nardi, Chiara; … - 2014

We enrich the choice task of responders in ultimatum games by allowing them to independently decide whether to collect what is offered to them and whether to destroy what the proposer demanded. Such a multidimensional response format intends to cast further light on the motives guiding responder...

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Moral Hypocrisy, Power and Social Preferences

Rustichini, Aldo - 2012

the fairness and unfairness of allocations in three different scenarios (a Dictator game, an Ultimatum game, and a Trust … same session we elicit again their principles regarding the fairness and unfairness of allocations in the same three … norm in its favor and the weak side agrees: Stated fairness is a compromise with power. Second, in most situations …

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Social Preferences, Efficiency and Personal Values in Ultimatum Bargaining

Lönnqvist, Jan-Erik - 2013

How do people trade off efficiency against equality concerns? To study this question, we conducted a modified mini ultimatum game (N=120) in which proposers were asked to choose between offering 8:2 and y:y, y∈{5, 4.5, 4,.., 0.5}; all offers in Euro. According to the data, 58 of 60 proposers...

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Moral Hypocrisy, Power and Social Preferences

Rustichini, Aldo - 2014

We study how individuals adjust their judgment of fairness and unfairness when they are in the position of spectators …

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(Not) everyone can be a winner : the role of payoff interdependence for redistribution

Schaube, Sebastian; Strang, Louis Mick - 2022 - This version: April 6, 2022

resulting inequality is perceived differently and how this affects redistribution. Across treatments, we compare a spectator …'s redistribution of two workers' earnings. If workers do not compete in a zero-sum setting, average redistribution decreases. In a … of redistribution and are more likely to be Democrats. …

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Mine, Ours or Yours? Unintended Framing Effects in Dictator Games

Bergh, Andreas; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2018 - This Version: April 16, 2018

This paper reports results from a classroom dictator game comparing the effects of three different sets of standard instructions. The results show that seemingly small differences in instructions induce fundamentally different perceptions regarding entitlement. Behavior is affected accordingly,...

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Making the world a better place : experimental evidence from the generosity game

Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria; Ploner, Matteo - 2009

We study ultimatum and dictator experiments where the first mover chooses the amount of money to be distributed between the players within a given interval, knowing that her own share is fixed. Thus, the first mover is faced with scarcity, but not with the typical trade-off between her own and...

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Testing the Single-Peakedness of Other-Regarding Preferences

Levati, Maria Vittoria - 2019

We test an implication that is common to all prominent theories of outcome-based other-regarding preferences: the …

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