Friedman, Harsanyi, Rawls, Boulding – or somebody else? An experimental investigation of distributive justice

Traub, Stefan; Seidl, Christian; Schmidt, Ulrich; Levati, M. Vittoria

doi:10.1007/s00355-003-0303-1

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“…For an experimental investigation of distributive justice see Traub et al (2005). On equality of opportunity see Hansson (2004), Roemer (2002), Roemer et al (2003), andSugden (2004).…”

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Globalization and social justice in OECD countries

Kauder

Potrafke

2015

Rev World Econ

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may Globalization and Social Justice in OECD CountriesAbstract Social justice is a topic of importance to social scientists and also political decision makers. We examine the relationship between globalization and social justice as measured by a new indicator for 31 OECD countries. The results show that countries that experienced rapid globalization enjoy social justice. When the KOF index of globalization increases by one standard deviation, the social justice indicator increases by about 0.4 points (on a scale from 1 to 10). The policy implication is that permitting a national economy to become globally integrated is consistent with and promotes social justice.JEL-Code: D630, F610.

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“…For an experimental investigation of distributive justice see Traub et al (2005). On equality of opportunity see Hansson (2004), Roemer (2002), Roemer et al (2003), andSugden (2004).…”

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Globalization and social justice in OECD countries

Kauder

Potrafke

2015

Rev World Econ

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“…Alongside the literature on social preferences showing that inequality is perceived as legitimate only if it is determined by factors under individual control (see the references in the first paragraph in the introduction and Frohlich and Oppenheimer (1992);Miller (1999); Konow (2003); Traub et al (2005); Sen (2011); Gaertner and Schokkaert (2011);Fong (2001)), our study is related to the literature on social status. For example, Hoffman et al (1994) show that if the right to be the first mover in a bargaining game was earned by scoring high on a general knowledge quiz, then subjects behaved in a more self-regarding manner.…”

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Entitlements and Loyalty in Groups: An Experimental Study

Paetzel

Sausgruber

2016

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractWe study loyalty in groups that are exogenously assigned based on members' performances in a task. We observe that in-group bias is strong and significant among subjects who score high in performance, and that it is weak and insignificant among those who score low. This asymmetric pattern is mirrored in the punishment of disloyal subjects within groups. The results are consistent with an explanation according to which fairness judgments depend on entitlement considerations and provide a new perspective on theory and empirical research that argues that group identity increases with the status of the group. JEL: C92, D31, D63

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“…Instead, he found some evidence of randomization preferences, that is, a procedural fairness motive (Diamond, 1967) which violates the betweeness axiom of expected utility theory. Likewise, in an experimental "beauty contest" of social welfare functions Traub et al (2005) demonstrated that a quadratic social welfare function (Epstein and Segal, 1992) which expresses randomization preferences performed remarkably well. As a consequence of such procedural fairness motives entering the self-interested social planner's preference, she is likely to avoid extreme outcomes in terms of insufficiently low or excessively high incomes (see Traub et al, 2008).…”

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“…Note that the experiment involved considerable monetary payoffs of up to e 1,050. The individual choice approach was also employed by Bernasconi (2002), Bosmans and Schokkaert (2004), and Traub et al (2005 in order to test various hypotheses concerning perceptions of justice and the consistency of choice behavior in income distribution contexts. In terms of the individual choice approach, income distributions resemble lotteries.…”

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“…Apart from theoretical concerns (see, for example, Mongin, 2001), the literature suggests that the relationship between a social planner's distributional preferences and income distributions is more complex than stated by 3 The large existing body of experimental literature concerned with redistribution problems comprises, for example, Cowell, 1992, 2000;Ballano and Ruiz-Castillo, 1993;Frohlich and Oppenheimer, 1994;Seidl, 1994a, 1994b;Bernasconi, 2002;Bosmans and Schokkaert, 2004;Traub et al, 2005Traub et al, , 2008. However, to our best knowledge this is the first study to contrast empirical findings concerning the change of institutions such as the pension system with experimental micro data.…”

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Back to Bismarck? Shifting Preferences for Intragenerational Redistribution in OECD Pension Systems

Krieger

Traub

2008

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract Using a sample of 20 OECD countries it is shown that the majority of countries decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution in the first pillar of their pension systems, though the evidence is weak in statistical terms. We find strong correlations between changes of the so-called Terms of use: Documents in EconStor mayBismarckian factor and changes of the generosity of the pension system, the shape of the income distribution in terms of its first three central moments and life expectancy. An economic laboratory experiment confirms that these variables could have been causal for the observed change.JEL classification: H55, D71, J18, D63, C92

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Friedman, Harsanyi, Rawls, Boulding – or somebody else? An experimental investigation of distributive justice

Cited by 56 publications

References 49 publications

Globalization and social justice in OECD countries

Globalization and social justice in OECD countries

Entitlements and Loyalty in Groups: An Experimental Study

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