Cappelen, Alexander W.
[VerfasserIn]
;
Gauri, Varun
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Tungodden, Bertil
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
Erschienen in:CESifo Working Paper Series ; No. 7052
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1 Online-Ressource (31 p)
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.3208602
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments May 18, 2018 erstellt
Beschreibung:
A large-scale economic experiment, conducted on a representative sample of the US popula- tion, shows that cooperation creates special moral obligations. Participants in the experiment, acting as impartial spectators, transferred significantly more money to an unlucky worker when two individuals had cooperated than when they had worked independently. We further show that the effect of cooperation is strongly associated with political affiliation, with Democrats attaching significantly more importance to cooperation as a source of moral obligation than Republicans. Our findings shed light on the foundations of redistributive preferences and may contribute to explain the often observed asymmetry in moral concern for different groups of individuals, both nationally and internationally