Exploiting moral wiggle room: Experiments demonstrating an illusory preference for fairness

Economic Theory

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-80

  Dana, Jason ^a   Weber, Roberto A ^b   Kuang, Jason Xi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dictator games; Experiments; Fairness

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547223057     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-006-0153-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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