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Luck, choice and responsibility : an experimental study of fairness views

Möllerström, Johanna; Reme, Bjørn-Atle; Sørensen, … - 2014

We conduct a laboratory experiment where third-party spectators can redistribute resources between two agents, thereby offsetting the consequences of controllable and uncontrollable luck. Some spectators go to the limits and equalize all or no inequalities, but many follow an interior allocation...

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Social preferences under risk : ex-post fairness vs. efficiency

Gaudeul, Alexia - 2015

Social lotteries are lotteries that are played along with someone else. The experimental literature indicates that risk attitudes depend on how one’s situation in the safe alternative compares to that of a peer. Evaluation of the risky alternative also depends on whether the lottery gives...

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Prosocial risk-taking : growing the pie or increasing your slice?

Weber, Nina - 2023

Many personally risky decisions, such as innovation and entrepreneurship, have the potential to increase overall welfare by creating positive externalities for society. Rewarding such prosocial risk-taking may be an important strategy in addressing societal challenges like, for example, the...

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"It's not about the money. It's about sending a message!" : unpacking the components of revenge

Molńar, András; Chaudhry, Shereen J.; Loewenstein, George - 2020

We examine whether belief-based preferences - caring about what transgressors believe - play a crucial role in punishment decisions: Do punishers want to make sure that transgressors understand why they are being punished, and is this desire to affect beliefs often prioritized over distributive...

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Prosocial risk-taking: Growing the pie or increasing your slice?

Weber, Nina - 2023

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Social Preferences in Private Decisions

Linde, Jona; Sonnemans, Joep - 2012

Social preference models were originally constructed to explain two things: why people spend money to affect the earnings of others and why the income of others influences reported happiness. We test these models in a novel experimental situation where participants face a risky decision that...

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Social preferences under risk: Ex-post fairness vs. efficiency

Gaudeul, Alexia - 2015

Social lotteries are lotteries that are played along with someone else. The experimental literature indicates that risk attitudes depend on how one's situation in the safe alternative compares to that of a peer. Evaluation of the risky alternative also depends on whether the lottery gives equal...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348199

Jon Elster und das Problem lokaler Gerechtigkeit

Pies, Ingo; Viebranz, Jörg - 2007

This paper analyzes Jon Elster's work on local justice. The topic of local justice is rationing: the decentralized in … local justice, ((2)) that he compares the incentive effects of such principles, and that ((3)) he tries to explain … arrangements of local justice. The second part deals with Elster's rather pessimistic self-evaluations. These refer, first, to the …

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Dissecting Inequality-Averse Preferences

Bergolo, Marcelo; Burdin, Gabriel; Burone, Santiago; De … - 2021

Although different approaches and methods have been used to measure inequality aversion, there remains no consensus about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample of more than 1800 first-year undergraduate economics and business students in Uruguay to...

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Social Preferences in Private Decisions

Linde, Jona; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

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