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Luck, choice and responsibility

Reme, Bjørn-Atle; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Mollerstrom, Johanna
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2014-03
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Abstract
We conduct a laboratory experiment where third-party spectators can redistribute

resources between two agents, thereby offsetting the consequences

of controllable and uncontrollable luck. Some spectators go to the

limits and equalize all or no inequalities, but many follow an interior allocation

rule previously unaccounted for by the fairness views in the literature.

These interior allocators regard an agent’s choice as more important

than the cause of her low income and do not always compensate bad uncontrollable

luck. Instead, they condition such compensation on the agent’s

decision regarding controllable luck exposure, even though the two types

of luck are independent.
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Norwegian School of Economics. Department of Economics
Series
Discussion paper;6/2014

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