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When foul play seems fair : dishonesty as a response to violations of just deserts

Kline, Reuben; Galeotti, Fabio; Orsini, Raimondello - 2014

formal-theoretic framework - equity theory - we explore the nexus between the perception of just deserts and honesty …

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On Measuring Compassion in Social Preferences Do Gender, Price of Giving, or Inequality Matter?

Kamas, Linda; Preston, Anne - 2009

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...

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Your place in the world relative income and global inequality

Fehr, Dietmar; Mollerstrom, Johanna; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2021

There is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, but only little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conduct a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of...

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Fragile Markets : An Experiment on Judicial Independence

Arruñada, Benito; Casari, Marco - 2018

treatment: paying judges according to lenders’ votes maximizes total surplus and equity; and a similar result appears when …

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Relationship of gender differences in preferences to economic development and gender equality

Falk, Armin; Hermle, Johannes - 2018

Preferences - concerning time, risk and social interactions - systematically shape human behavior, and contribute to differential economic and social outcomes between the genders. Here, we present a global investigation of gender differences in six fundamental preferences. Our data consist of...

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Theory of the avatar

Castronova, Edward - 2003

increase aggregate human well-being, while decreasing its cross-sectional variance. These efficiency and equity effects are …

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Coordinated carbon taxes or tightened NDCs : distributional implications of two options for climate negotiations

Mukanjari, Samson; Sterner, Thomas - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 3 (2023) 1, pp. 1-29

Concerns about fairness among countries remain significant obstacles to a stronger global climate treaty. This paper …

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Trickle down tax morale : a cross country survey experiment

Mellon, Jonathan; Peixoto, Tiago; Sjoberg, Fredrik M.; … - 2021

Studies have encouraged pro-social behavior by experimentally manipulating people's views of what others like them tend to do (descriptive norms). These studies positively change behaviors, including charitable giving, littering, organ donation, and tax compliance. This paper argues that these...

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Voice and punishment : a global survey experiment on tax morale

Sjoberg, Fredrik M.; Mellon, Jonathan; Peixoto, Tiago; … - 2019

An online survey experiment spanning 50 countries finds sizable improvements in tax morale when (a) the salience of anti-corruption efforts is increased and (b) citizens are allowed to voice their expenditure preferences to the government. These results hold very broadly across a uniquely large...

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Negotiating weights for burden sharing rules among heterogeneous parties : empirical evidence from a survey among delegates in international climate negotiations

Kesternich, Martin; Löschel, Andreas; Ziegler, Andreas - 2014

Given the vital and controversial debate on fairness concerns in international climate negotiations, the acceptance of … international climate negotiations to address the question whether negotiating weights for different fairness concepts may enlarge … the bargaining space among heterogeneous agents and overcome the currently dominating self-interested use of fairness …

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