Economic status and acknowledgement of earned entitlement
We present a series of experiments that investigates whether tendencies to acknowledge entitlement owing to effort and productivity are associated with within society economic status. Each participant played a four-person dictator game under one of two treatments, under one initial endowments were e...
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Published: |
Elsevier
2015
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28671/ |
| _version_ | 1848793621847867392 |
|---|---|
| author | Barr, Abigail Burns, Justine Miller, Luis Shaw, Ingrid |
| author_facet | Barr, Abigail Burns, Justine Miller, Luis Shaw, Ingrid |
| author_sort | Barr, Abigail |
| building | Nottingham Research Data Repository |
| collection | Online Access |
| description | We present a series of experiments that investigates whether tendencies to acknowledge entitlement owing to effort and productivity are associated with within society economic status. Each participant played a four-person dictator game under one of two treatments, under one initial endowments were earned, under the other they were randomly assigned. The experiments were conducted in the United Kingdom, and 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. |
| first_indexed | 2025-11-14T19:03:13Z |
| format | Article |
| id | nottingham-28671 |
| institution | University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus |
| institution_category | Local University |
| last_indexed | 2025-11-14T19:03:13Z |
| publishDate | 2015 |
| publisher | Elsevier |
| recordtype | eprints |
| repository_type | Digital Repository |
| spelling | nottingham-286712020-05-04T17:02:11Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28671/ Economic status and acknowledgement of earned entitlement Barr, Abigail Burns, Justine Miller, Luis Shaw, Ingrid We present a series of experiments that investigates whether tendencies to acknowledge entitlement owing to effort and productivity are associated with within society economic status. Each participant played a four-person dictator game under one of two treatments, under one initial endowments were earned, under the other they were randomly assigned. The experiments were conducted in the United Kingdom, and 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. Elsevier 2015-02-23 Article PeerReviewed Barr, Abigail, Burns, Justine, Miller, Luis and Shaw, Ingrid (2015) Economic status and acknowledgement of earned entitlement. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization . ISSN 0167-2681 (In Press) Distributive Justice Inequality Laboratory Experiments http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268115000475 doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2015.02.012 doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2015.02.012 |
| spellingShingle | Distributive Justice Inequality Laboratory Experiments Barr, Abigail Burns, Justine Miller, Luis Shaw, Ingrid Economic status and acknowledgement of earned entitlement |
| title | Economic status and acknowledgement of earned entitlement |
| title_full | Economic status and acknowledgement of earned entitlement |
| title_fullStr | Economic status and acknowledgement of earned entitlement |
| title_full_unstemmed | Economic status and acknowledgement of earned entitlement |
| title_short | Economic status and acknowledgement of earned entitlement |
| title_sort | economic status and acknowledgement of earned entitlement |
| topic | Distributive Justice Inequality Laboratory Experiments |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28671/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28671/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28671/ |