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Face-saving or fair-minded : what motivates moral behavior?
(Discussion paper;5/2013, Working paper, 2013-02)We study the relative importance of intrinsic moral motivation and extrinsic social motivation in explaining behavior in the dictator game. We introduce a novel design that manipulates these two dimensions. The paper ... -
Failing to Follow the Rules: Can Imprisonment Lead to More Imprisonment Without More Actual Crime?
(SAM DP;03/2022, Working paper, 2022-03)We find that people involved in low-level crime receiving a prison sentence are more likely than those with non-prison sentences to be re-imprisoned due to technical violations of parole, rather than due to new crimes. We ... -
Fair tax evasion
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-04)In this paper we analyse how fairness considerations, in particular considerations of just income distribution, affect whether or not people believe tax evasion can be justified and their willingness to engage in tax ... -
Fair tax evasion
(Discussion paper;11/2013, Working paper, 2013-04)In this paper we analyse how fairness considerations, in particular considerations of just income distribution, affect whether or not people find tax evasion justifiable and their willingness to evade taxes. Using data ... -
Fairness Across the World
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Fairness and family background
(Discussion paper;25/15, Working paper, 2015-10)Fairness preferences fundamentally affect individual behavior and play an important role in shaping social and political institutions. However, people differ both with respect to what they view as fair and with respect ... -
Fairness and inequality : measuring fairness preferences and identifying the unfair income inequality in Germany
(Master thesis, 2016)The standard measures of economic inequality seem not to be in accordance with the way people tend to think about inequality. Rather than considering all economic inequality unfair, people seem to accept inequalities arising ... -
Fairness and limited information: Are people Bayesian meritocrats?
(SAM DP;07/2022, Working paper, 2022-05)Meritocracy is a prominent fairness view in many societies, but often difficult to apply because there is limited information about the source of inequality. This paper studies theoretically and empirically how limited ... -
Fairness and the Development of Inequality Acceptance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)Fairness considerations fundamentally affect human behavior, but our understanding of the nature and development of people’s fairness preferences is limited. The dictator game has been the standard experimental design for ... -
Fairness and the Development of Inequality Acceptance
(Discussion paper;18/15, Working paper, 2015-08)Fairness considerations fundamentally affect human behavior, but our understanding of the nature and development of people’s fairness preferences is limited. The dictator game has been the standard experimental design for ... -
Fairness and Willingness to Compete
(DP SAM;08/2021, Working paper, 2021-03)The large experimental literature on competitiveness has typically ignored a key feature of many competitive settings in society: competition is not always fair. The playing field may be uneven and competitors of unequal ... -
Fairness Beliefs Affect Perceived Economic Inequality
(DP SAM;22/2023, Working paper, 2023-12)This paper establishes a causal link from fairness beliefs to perceived economic inequality. I conduct an experiment where participants are asked to estimate various income inequality measures of hypothetical societies. ... -
Fairness in bankruptcy situations: an experimental study
(Discussion paper;17/15, Working paper, 2015-08)The pari passu principle is the most prominent principle in the law of insolvency. We report from a lab experiment designed to study whether people find this principle a fair solution to the bankruptcy problem. The ... -
Fairness in Winner-Take-All Markets
(DP SAM;8/2018, Working paper, 2018-04)The paper reports the first experimental study on people’s fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from winner-take-all reward structures. We find that the majority of participants consider extreme income ... -
Fairness is intuitive
(Discussion paper;9/2014, Working paper, 2014-04)In this paper we provide new evidence showing that fair behavior is intuitive to most people. We find a strong association between a short response time and fair behavior in the dictator game. This association is robust ... -
Fairness motivation in bargaining
(Discussion Papers;14/2011, Working paper, 2011-07)In this paper, we develop a model that captures the potential conflict between two individuals who follow different fairness principles in bargaining. This model is used to analyse the infl uence of fairness motivation on ... -
Fairness Preferences and Default Effects
(DP SAM;09/2024, Working paper, 2024-06)An influential subset of the literature on distributional preferences studies how preferences condition on characteristics such as workers' relative productivity. In this study we establish that there are default effects ... -
Family stability and labor market gender convergence
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-04)The present paper examines the historical development in the structure of the family in terms of marriage, divorce, fertility and labor 1886-2007 in order to map quantitative changes. The paper draws new information from ... -
Fast times at Ridgemont High? : the effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage births
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-09)Research suggests that teenage childbearing adversely affects both the outcomes of the mothers as well as those of their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage birth, but does this ... -
FDI, R&D and endogenous competitiveness
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-01)We analyze the influence of endogenous competitiveness on multinational activity. Competitiveness is endogenized by assuming that firms differ on R&D commitment power, i.e.: some firms are leaders in R&D. We show that ...