Exploiting Moral Wriggle Room: Behavior Inconsistent with a Preference for Fair Outcomes
Preprint
- 1 January 2003
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Subjects in economic experiments often behave altruistically. This is interpreted as reflecting a concern for equitable monetary outcomes. We show that a consKeywords
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