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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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We report results from three well-known experimental paradigms, where we use time, rather than money, as the salient component of subjects’ incentives. The three experiments, commonly employed to study social preferences, are the dictator game, the ultimatum game and the trust game. All...
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conducted a preregistered, refined and extended test of the morality preference hypothesis (N=801). Consistent with this …
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We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how demand for redistribution of income depends on self-interest, insurance … is affected by redistribution. We estimate utility weights for the different sources of demand for redistribution, with …
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People with higher-incomes tend to support less redistribution than lower-income people. This has been attributed not … underlying inequality, differing fairness views, and differing perceptions of social norms. In this study, we directly measure … each of these mechanisms and compare their mediating roles in the relationship between status and redistribution. In our …
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We estimate responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health that facilitate inequalityand inequity-sensitive policy evaluation. In a UK general population sample, 569 online experiment participants distribute constrained resources to determine the health of hypothetical individuals...
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the results of a large-scale incentivized experiment investigating individuals' fairness perceptions of the extreme income … the runner-up by the smallest possible margin. Generally, fairness judgements are only weakly influenced by the winning … inequalities. Our results improve understanding of public attitudes toward fairness and redistributive policies in winner …
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This study investigates the influence of gender composition on allocation decisions involving a rank-inequality tradeoff. In a laboratory experiment, participants chose to either alleviate inequality by relinquishing their current relative rank or exacerbate inequality by maintaining their...
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importance of fairness preferences, risk aversion, and self-interest in determining support for redistribution by conducting a … redistribution and the level of redistribution that maximizes additive social welfare. Most of our subjects prefer that there be less … inequality among others and demand for redistribution responds in predictable ways to the cost of taxation and to the dead …
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We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how demand for redistribution of income depends on self-interest, insurance … is affected by redistribution. We estimate utility weights for the different sources of demand for redistribution, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077859