Individual notions of distributive justice and relative economic status

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dc.contributor.author Barr, A. en_US
dc.contributor.author Burns, Justine en_US
dc.contributor.author Miller, L. en_US
dc.contributor.author Shaw, I. en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2012-12-03T12:07:33Z
dc.date.available 2012-12-03T12:07:33Z
dc.date.issued 2011-09 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/11090/77
dc.description.abstract We present two experiments designed to investigate whether individuals notions of distributive justice are associated with their relative (within-society) economic status. Each participant played a specially designed four-person dictator game under one of two treatments, under one initial endowments were earned, under the other they were randomly assigned. The first experiment was conducted in Oxford, United Kingdom, the second in Cape Town, South Africa. In both locations we found that relatively well-off individuals make allocations to others that reflect those others initial endowments more when those endowments were earned rather than random; among relatively poor individuals this was not the case. en_US
dc.publisher Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit en_US
dc.title Individual notions of distributive justice and relative economic status en_US


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