Fairness is Intuitive

Autor(en)

Alexander Wright Cappelen, Ulrik H. Nielsen, Bertil Tungodden, Jean-Robert Tyran, Erik Wengström

Abstrakt

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 to controls that take
account of the fact that response time might be affected by the decision-maker’s
cognitive ability and swiftness. The experiment was conducted with a large and
heterogeneous sample recruited from the general population in Denmark. We find
a striking similarity in the association between response time and fair behavior
across groups in the society, which suggests that the predisposition to act fairly is
a general human trait.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wiener Zentrum für Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung

Externe Organisation(en)

Lund University, University of Bergen (UiB), University of Copenhagen, Norwegian School of Economics

Anzahl der Seiten

16

Publikationsdatum

04-2014

ÖFOS 2012

502045 Verhaltensökonomie

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/fairness-is-intuitive(fb9c3801-7eb6-4e1b-b34d-128f485b661b).html