- A-Z
- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 7
- Revealed Notions of...
- Abgebildete Person
- Erschienen
- 27. September 2013
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2013-42
- Schlagwort(e)
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Altruism
Dictator Games
Distributive Justice
Experimental Economics
Nonparametric Analysis
Preference Decomposition
Revealed Preference
Social Preferences
- Zusammenfsg.
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We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a “social planner” or“veil of ignorance” experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion paper by Becker, H ̈ager, and Heufer (BHH, 2013), in which we introduce a “notion of distributive justice” by which individuals trade off equality and efficiency. The purpose of the theoretical framework is to explain preferences in dictator experiments by a combination of selfishness and concerns for distributive justice. Most participants conform very well with the Agreement and Symmetry axioms proposed in BHH; we find that for 80% of participants the evidence is very strong. The experiment therefore demonstrates that most participants’ behaviour in dictator experiments can be explained by a combination of selfishness and concerns for distributive justice. We also provide a rough classification of preferences and notions of distributive justice and show that participants’ strength of the sense for justice (Karni and Safra 2002b) can be compared non-parametrically.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- C14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods ; C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; D11 - Consumer Economics: Theory ; D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; D64 - Altruism