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particular cardiovascular health, and fairness of pay. … cardiovascular health. We further test potential adverse health effects of unfair pay using data from a large representative data set …. Complementary to our experimental findings we find a strong and highly significant association between health outcomes, in …
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Is competition perceived as a fair procedure? We report data from laboratory experiments where a powerful buyer can … inform the debate on the fairness of market outcomes by showing that the use of a competitive procedure can, by itself …
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-applicable model of path-dependent fairness preferences, in which past experiences shape preferences, and we experimentally test the …' fairness concerns, making them more likely to accept transactions in which they receive a low share of the surplus. Consistent …
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People who are unable to maintain the same standard of living as others around them experience a sense of relative deprivation that has been shown to reduce feelings of well-being. Relative deprivation reflects conditions of worsening relative poverty despite striking reductions in absolute...
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strength. We then present three experiments that study main predictions and implications of the model. The first is a simple …
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important to be aware of the fact that the empirical basis of this literature relies to a large extent on experiments that do …-subject anonymity may create selfish incentives to engage in seemingly other-regarding behavior. If this were the case these experiments ….-- scrutiny ; anonymity ; laboratory experiments ; prosocial behavior …
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Bracketing is a mental procedure about how people deal with multiple tasks. If a decision maker handles all the tasks at the same time, it is called broad bracketing. If she handles the tasks separately, e.g., one or a few tasks each time, it is called narrow bracketing. This paper...
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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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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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Evidence from an experiment investigating the "house money effect" in the context of a public goods game is reconsidered. Analysis is performed within the framework of the panel hurdle model, in which subjects are assumed to be one of two types: free-riders, and potential contributors. The...
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