1 to 10 of 18 Results
Apr 30, 2025
Buser, Thomas; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Tungodden, Bertil, 2025, "Replication Data for: Fairness and Willingness to Compete", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TMCB3W, Harvard Dataverse, V2
Many societies allocate wealth and status through competitions. These competitions may be seen as unfair if the playing field is uneven or if the competitors are of unequal strength. We run two experiments to document the extent to which people are willing to compete against others in situations with varying fairness concerns. In a between-subject... |
Sep 20, 2024
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Falch, Ranveig; Tungodden, Bertil, 2024, "Replication Data for: Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/J0XC2G, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:vgGHhNvysSIzhfeKGSwcrQ== [fileUNF]
In recent decades, there has been an increase in the share of males struggling in the labor market and education. We show in a set of large-scale experimental studies involving more than 35,000 Americans that people are more accepting of males falling behind than they are of females falling behind, and less in agreement with government policies sup... |
Sep 9, 2024
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Falch, Ranveig; Huang, Zhongjing; Tungodden, Bertil, 2024, "Replication Data for: Acceptance of inequality between children: Largescale experimental evidence from China and Norway", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OQZRON, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:VaBysA6N2tzaUPz83biFAA== [fileUNF]
In a novel large-scale experiment, we study how adults in two societies, Shanghai (China) and Norway, make real distributive decisions involving children. We find that acceptance of inequality between children increases with the age of the children, is affected by the source of inequality and the cost of redistribution, and is lower than acceptance... |
Jun 26, 2024
Bartling, Björn; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Skarpeid, Ingvild L.; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil, 2024, "Replication Data for: The talent paradox: Why is it fair to reward talent but not luck?", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/20CRBI, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:73FOyDaPCFxYO/zEkSHncw== [fileUNF]
This paper investigates how people differentiate between inequality caused by talent and inequality caused by luck in a large-scale study of the US population. We establish the talent puzzle by showing that Americans differentiate significantly between inequality due to luck and inequality due to talent. We show that this partly reflects that peopl... |
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Enke, Benjamin; Tungodden, Bertil, 2024, "Replication Data for: Universalism: Global Evidence", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/K7ZQFK, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:OT52Oq57TUbMHKM4L5KP/A== [fileUNF]
This paper leverages nationally representative surveys across 60 countries and 64,000 respondents to present novel stylized facts about the relationship-specific nature of altruism. Across individuals, universalist preferences systematically vary with demographics such as age and religiosity, and are predictive of many left-wing political views, al... |
Mar 20, 2024
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Meissner, Stefan; Tungodden, Bertil, 2024, "Replication Data for: Cancel the deal? An experimental study on the exploitation of irrational consumers", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TOYM2W, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:5NbmWrPa+Z+dkPrkT7/axQ== [fileUNF]
Consumers can sometimes be exploited because they make mistakes in their valuation of products. We present the results from a large-scale experimental study that examines whether third-party spectators from the general population of the United States cancel a voluntary deal where a buyer has made a mistake in the evaluation of a product and agreed... |
Bjerrum Andersen, Asbjørn Goul; Getahun, Tigabu; Kotsadam, Andreas; Somville, Vincent; Villanger, Espen, 2024, "Replication Data for: Analyses of effects of the integrated housing and development programme in Ethiopia", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HYTXPN, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:qh7t8X13M44ELKYaR+Ef3g== [fileUNF]
Assessing the causal impact of wealth on attitudes and well-being is a challenging task, since an individual’s economic situation may depend on unobserved characteristics which are likely to be correlated with such outcomes. We overcome this challenge by exploiting the exogenous variation in wealth created by a housing lottery in Addis Ababa, Ethio... |
Almås, Ingvild; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil, 2024, "Replication Data for: Fairness and the Development of Inequality Acceptance", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FGXDDZ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:RiwdIS/xMzbyy6ui1IdMyw== [fileUNF]
Inequality in payments may be seen as inherently unfair, or as appropriate when it reflects differential achievement. Using an economic exchange game, Almås et al. (p. 1176) mapped how judgments changed from 5th-grade students to 13th graders: Fifth graders expressed a preference for equal division of rewards, whereas the 13th graders tolerated une... |
Cappelen, Alexander W.; Kariv, Shachar; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil, 2023, "Replication Data for: The Development Gap in Economic Rationality of Future Elites", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CCODET, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:/b99kuoK/vYIkwHGGorFBw== [fileUNF]
We test the touchstones of economic rationality—utility maximization, stochastic dominance, and expected-utility maximization—of elite students in the U.S. and in Africa. The choices of most students in both samples are generally rationalizable, but the U.S. students’ scores are substantially higher. Nevertheless, the development gap in economic ra... |
Torbjørn Sandmo, 2023, "Replication Data for: Right to Restrict? A study of legitimacy as a driver of hard paternalistic interventions", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XGMYBL, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:X5alQSxcKZ886wLWBb6owA== [fileUNF]
Data from an experiment studying the effect of legitimacy on people’s willingness to implement a hard paternalistic intervention towards another person. In an incentivised experiment, participants decide whether to restrict the freedom of a stakeholder to prevent said stakeholder from making a mistake. The experiment varies participants’ sense of l... |
