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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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correlated with giving in the absence of risk. We find limited support for existing models of ex-post and ex-ante fairness. Our …
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We investigate how moral considerations, background conditions and risk can trigger resistance to implement trading institutions. We provide survey results on moral opposition to trade on several goods and services like body organs, sex services, surrogate mothers, trade with developing nations,...
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An important element for the public support of policies is their perceived justice. At the same time most policy choices have uncertain outcomes. We report the results of a first experiment investigating just allocations of resources when some recipients are exposed to uncertainty. Although,...
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inequality, such as differences in effort, luck, or opportunities. We study how fairness views and the extent of redistribution … outcome. Although third parties cannot verify cheating, we find that the mere suspicion of cheating changes fairness views of ….e., participants who never redistribute. Without cheating opportunities, libertarian fairness views dominate, while egalitarian views …
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Debates about affirmative action often revolve around fairness. Accordingly, we document substantial heterogeneity in … the fairness perception of various affirmative action policies. But do these differences translate into different … low productivity individuals is not perceived as fairer than an absence of affirmative action. Higher fairness perceptions …
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We consider an expanded notion of social norms that renders them belief-dependent and partial, formulate a series of related testable predictions, and design an experiment based on a variant of the dictator game that tests for empirical relevance. Main results: Normative beliefs influence...
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Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to avoid being discriminated against. In our trust game among 758 high-school students in the country of Georgia, ethnic Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian...
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Can social norms affect fundamental patterns of behavior such as income effects? Studies of determinants of giving to charities and other individuals yield a wide range of income-effect estimates. We conduct two experiments to first test whether the effect of income on charitable giving depends...
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Extensive research in economics explores generosity in monetary allocations. However, generosity often involves the allocation of non-monetary goods or experiences. Existing evidence suggests that generosity may be higher in such contexts, though no direct comparison exists. Here, we compare...
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