The Pluralism of Fairness Ideals: An Experimental Approach

By Alexander W. Cappelen, Astri Drange Hole, Erik Ø. Sørensen, Bertil Tungodden. Social Science Research Network, 2007

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A core question in the contemporary debate on distributive justice is how to understand fairness in situations involving production. Important theories of distributive justice, such as strict egalitarianism, liberal egalitarianism, and libertarianism, provide different answers to this question. This paper presents the results from a dictator game where the distribution phase is preceded by a production phase. Each player's contribution is a result of a freely chosen investment level and an exogenously given rate of return. We estimate simultaneously the prevalence of three principles of distributive justice among the players and the distribution of the weight they attach to fairness. (JEL D63)

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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Give and Take in Dictator Games (2013, background): “In such a setting, people may have very different views about individual entitlements to the total earnings (Cappelen et al., 2007).”
Anonymity in the Dictator Game Revisited (2012, background): “…transferred when subjects have to “earn” resources as compared to when they simply receive “windfall” gains (Arkes et al., 1994; Hoffman et al., 1994; Cappelen et al., 2007; Cherry, 2001; Cherry et al., 2002; List and Cherry, 2008; Oxoby and Spraggon, 2008), when there is a large social distance…”
Measuring Unfair (in) Equality (2008, background): “…be seen as holding individuals responsible for all personal factors, even genetic factors, independently of whether these factors are under individual control or not, and there is some experimental evidence indicating that this position is more prevalent in the population (Cappelen et al., 2007).”
Do Markets Erode Social Responsibility (2015, background): “…working conditions and persistent inequality, many scholars have raised the question of whether the inherent nature of market exchange has a perverting influence on people’s motivations to exhibit concern for the social impact of their actions (Bowles, 1998; Sandel, 2012; Falk and Szech, 2013;…”
NORMS MAKE PREFERENCES SOCIAL: Norms Make Preferences Social (2015, background): “(Cappelen et al. 2007). To clarify this intuition, we formalize the idea that people suffer a disutility from violating norms, and importantly, that people differ in their sensitivity to own-norm violations. We use an extremely simple framework to illustrate how normsensitivity may influence behavio”
Do people care about social context? Framing effects in dictator games (2012, neutral): “2002), and it is likely that this is due to social norms that distinguish the two situations (Cappelen et al. 2007).”