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Who is in favor of affirmative action? : representative evidence from an experiment and a survey

Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023

(e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By …

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Does willful ignorance deflect punishment? : an experimental study

Bartling, Björn; Engl, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013

This paper studies whether people can avoid punishment by remaining willfully ignorant about possible negative consequences of their actions for others. We employ a laboratory experiment, using modified dictator games in which a dictator can remain willfully ignorant about the payoff...

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Preferences for redistribution and pensions : what can we learn from experiments?

Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Jan; Riedl, Arno - 2010

they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness? How does … this depend on the type of redistribution involved?. -- redistribution ; fairness ; pension ; insurance ; experiment …

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Premature deaths, accidental bequests and fairness

Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - 2017

While little agreement exists regarding the taxation of bequests in general, there is a widely held view that accidental bequests should be subject to a confiscatory tax. We propose to reexamine the optimal taxation of accidental bequests in an economy where individuals care about what they...

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Out-group penalties in refugee assistance : a survey experiment

Cattaneo, Cristina; Gireco, Daniela; Lacetera, Nicola; … - 2024

We study out-group biases in attitudes toward refugees, and the effect of European Union (EU) immigration policies on these views, using an online survey experiment including 4,087 Italian participants. We assess attitudes using donations to a randomly assigned group: Italian victims of violence...

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An experimental analysis of in-group favoritism and out-group discrimination in the gain and loss domain

Antinyan, Armenak; Aydinyan, Tigran; Ressi, Anna; … - 2023

While the existence of the in-group bias is a well-researched phenomenon in Economics, the established findings are of limited value for understanding its dynamics in the context of challenging societal and economic times. The aim of this paper is to shed more light on whether intergroup...

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Behavioral constraints on pricing : experimental evidence on price discrimination and customer antagonism

Leibbrandt, Andreas - 2016

In this study, we investigate behavioral constraints on pricing by using a novel laboratory experiment in which actual consumption goods are traded. We test different models and provide several insights into pricing and reactions to price discrimination. First, we identify the extent to which...

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Gender effects in dictator game giving : women favour female recipients

Baltrusch, Maximilian; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2018 - This version: April 22, 2018

Allowing for a free choice of the recipient's gender in a dictator game (N = 508), we find that women show a substantial gender biased towards females. Adding a charity recipient to the possible choices, the charity becomes the primary recipient and overall transfers increase. Yet, conditioning...

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Bargaining with charitable promises : true preferences and strategic behavior

Lange, Andreas; Schwirplies, Claudia - 2021

We report experimental ﬁndings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...

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What makes a price fair? : an experimental study of transaction experience and endogenous fairnesss views

Herz, Holger; Taubinsky, Dmitry - 2016

People's fairness preferences are an important constraint for what constitutes an acceptable economic transaction, yet … arising from previous transactions play an important role in shaping perceptions of fairness. Buyers used to high market … two classes of models of path-dependent fairness preferences - either based on endogenous fairness reference points or …

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