Experimental Evidence

Just Cheap Talk? Investigating Fairness Preferences in Hypothetical Scenarios

The measurement of preferences often relies on surveys in which individuals evaluate hypothetical scenarios. This paper proposes and validates a novel factorial survey tool to measure fairness preferences. We specifically examine whether a …

Experimental Evidence on Attitudes Toward Inequality and Fairness

Many of our everyday life experiences suggest that humans are social individuals who care about themselves and others. Yet, for a long time, the economic discipline has focused on modeling the purely self-interested "homo economicus". In this review, …