Fair Shares: Accountability and Cognitive Dissonance in Allocation Decisions

By James Konow. 2000

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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How context matters: A survey based experiment on distributive justice (2007, background): “In the rst version no explanation of the di¤erence between the two individuals is provided.”
Fair Air: Distributive Justice and Environmental Economics (2010, methodology): “This principle has been corroborated in experiments: in the aforementioned dictator study of Konow (2000) , third parties allocate proportionally, when productivity is chosen, but equally, when productivity is due solelytoarbitrarydifferencesbetweensubjects.Theaccountabilityprincipleisalsorelatedto”
The Pluralism of Fairness Ideals: An Experimental Approach (2007, methodology): “The focus of Konow (2000) is to examine the extent to which fairness considerations can be explained by a single fairness ideal, namely the liberal egalitarian principle.”
Just luck: an experimental study of risk taking and fairness (2013, background): “…on the nature of social preferences has relied on both spectator ( Charness and Rabin 2002; Engelmann and Strobel 2004; Konow, Saijo, and Akai 2009; Konow 2000, 2009 and stakeholder behavior ( Cappelen et al. 2007; Cherry, Frykblom, and Shogren 2002; Engelmann and Strobel 2004; Fehr and Schmidt…”
Honesty on the Streets. A Field Study on Newspaper Purchasing (2013, result): “The similar findings of Bolton, Katok, and Zwick (1998), Konow (2000), and Dana, Weber, and Kuang (2007) indicate that people attempt to camouflage self-serving choices in a way that makes them appear unselfish.”
Exploiting moral wiggle room: Illusory preference for fairness? A comment (2009, neutral): “…individuals often act altruistically (e.g., Becker 1974; Andreoni 1989, 1990) they also engage in strategic ignorance and thus avoid situations where altruism might be expected or required of them (Bolton, Katok, & Zwick, 1998; Konow, 2000; Carrillo & Marriotti 2000; Dana, Cain & Dawes, 2006).”
Measuring Unfair (in) Equality (2008, background): “…debate, surveys (Gaertner and Schwettmann, 2007; Schokkaert and Devooght, 2003), economic experiments (Cappelen et al., 2007; Frohlich et al., 2004; Konow, 2000) and contemporary theories of justice (Arneson, 1989; Bossert, 1995; Fleurbaey, 1995; Roemer, 1996, 1998) that people view some…”
Mine and yours: Property rights in dictator games (2008, neutral): “9 Refraining from punishing low ability is consistent with the “accountability principle” discussed in Konow (2000) .”
Managing Joint Production Motivation: The Role of Goal Framing and Governance Mechanisms (2011, background): “However, accountability must be clearly related to those aspects an individual can influence by intelligent effort (Konow, 2000) and to the recognition of limitations in the assessment of individual cause, effort, and intention.”
Doing Rawls Justice: An Experimental Study of Income Distribution Norms (2003, background): “We fi nd that equality, ef fi ciency, merit, and need all play a distinct role in dis tributive justice judgments and that most individuals use all or most of these principles simultaneously (see also Konow 2000, 2001).”