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This paper investigates the relationship between information and individual preferences over income redistribution. The … Rawlsian “Veil of Ignorance” argument for justifying income redistribution is examined. We find no evidence of the insurance …
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Stated willingness-to-pay from hypothetical surveys generally exceeds revealed willingness-to-pay from real purchase experiments. One explanation for this hypothetical bias which has been put forward is that participants use high willingness-to-pay statements for public goods to improve their...
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We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone...
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lines of race and education. -- Distributive Justice ; Governmental Redistribution ; Fairness …
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We show that people manipulate their attitudes towards ambiguity when doing so allows them to behave more self-interestedly. In a "dictator" decision subject chose between a "fair" and an "unfair" choice. By choosing the latter, dictators increase their own allocation by decreasing the...
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proposes and validates a novel factorial survey tool to measure fairness preferences. We examine whether a non … to the incentivized experiment and recovers fairness preferences that are stable over time. Furthermore, we show that … most respondents adopt intermediate fairness positions, with fewer exhibiting strictly egalitarian or libertarian …
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proposes and validates a novel factorial survey tool to measure fairness preferences. We examine whether a non … to the incentivized experiment and recovers fairness preferences that are stable over time. Furthermore, we show that … most respondents adopt intermediate fairness positions, with fewer exhibiting strictly egalitarian or libertarian …
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