期刊名称：Discussion Papers / Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
印刷版ISSN：0804-6824
出版年度：2008
卷号：2008
出版社：Bergen
摘要：Why do people in rich countries not transfer more of their income to people in
the world's poorest countries? To study this question and the relative importance
of needs, entitlements, and nationality in people's social preferences, we conducted a
real e
ort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries,
Norway and Germany, interacted directly with people in Uganda and Tanzania, two
of the world's poorest countries. In this experiment, the participants were given the
opportunity to transfer money to poor persons with whom they were matched. The
study provides four main ndings. First, entitlement considerations are crucial in
explaining the distributive behavior of rich people in the experiment; second, needs
considerations matter a lot for some participants; third, the participants acted as moral
cosmopolitans; and nally, the participants' choices are consistent with a self-serving
bias in their social preferences.
