Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/87452 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 12-003/1
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
Social preference models were originally constructed to explain two things: why people spend money to affect the earnings of others and why the income of others influences reported happiness. We test these models in a novel experimental situation where participants face a risky decision that affects only their own earnings. In the social (individual) treatment participants do (not) observe the earnings of others. In the social treatment gambles therefore not only affect absolute but also relative earnings. Outcome-based social preference models therefore predict a treatment difference. We find that decisions are generally the same in both treatments, in line with rule-based social preference models, like procedural fairness.
Subjects: 
fairness
social preferences
decision making under risk
experiment
JEL: 
C91
D63
D81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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