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investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is amplified by suspicious success - achievements that may arise from … to different views on whether to accept inequality. Left-wing spectators substantially reduce inequality when cheating is …. These results suggest that redistributive preferences will diverge even more once public awareness increases that inequality …
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inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which …
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This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of the social environment in shaping the accuracy of self-assessment. We introduce a novel incentivized measurement tool to measure the accuracy of self-assessment among children and use this tool to show that children from high...
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across experiments. …
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A series of experiments compares bargaining behavior under three different settings: no arbitration, conventional and …
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underlying inequality, differing fairness views, and differing perceptions of social norms. In this study, we directly measure … report different fairness views and beliefs about task performance, but not different beliefs about social norms. Further …, only fairness views play a significant mediating role between status and allocation differences, suggesting this is the …
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Economic decisions have been shown to depend on actual outcomes as well as perceived intentions. In this paper, we examine wether and how the relative importance of outcomes or intentions for economic decision develops with age. We report the resullt of ultimatum games with children, teens and...
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Fairness is a strong concern as shown by dictator and ultimatum experiments. Efficiency, measured by the sum of … fain by gift giving. Our results indicate that efficiency concerns are dominated by fairness concerns that are less …
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measure of unfair inequality that reconciles two widely-held fairness principles: equality of opportunity and freedom from …Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper we address this shortcoming by developing a new …
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Why are people so often overconfident? We conduct an experiment to test the hypothesis that people become overconfident to more effectively persuade or deceive others. After performing a cognitively challenging task, half of our subjects are informed that they can earn money by convincing others...
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