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Verfasst von:	Fehr, Dietmar [VerfasserIn]
	Rau, Hannes [VerfasserIn]
	Trautmann, Stefan T. [VerfasserIn]
	Xu, Yilong [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Inequality, fairness and social capital
Verf.angabe:	Dietmar Fehr, Hannes Rau, Stefan T. Trautmann and Yilong Xu
Verlagsort:	Heidelberg
Verlag:	University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
Jahr:	2018
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource (38 Seiten)
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Discussion paper series / University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics ; no. 650
Fussnoten:	Keywords: inequality, fairness, social capital, JEL classifications C91, D31, D63
Abstract:	Abstract: We study the impact of unjust inequality on social trust and trustworthiness, and its separate effect on the economically successful and the unsuccessful, in a controlled economic experiment. We find evidence for a negative effect of unfair economic inequality on social interactions. Probing the boundaries of this effect, we document that this erosion of social capital critically depends on the context: if a well-off person is not directly responsible for the outcome of the worse-off person, then we observe no negative effects on trust and trustworthiness in the aggregate. Moreover, our data do not support the view that higher status or wealth leads to an erosion of pro-social attitudes: the successful are always more generous; groups of unsuccessful persons are least efficient and least generous in the trust game.
DOI:	doi:10.11588/heidok.00025085
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	DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00025085
	10419/207626
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-250853
Schlagwörter:	(s)Ungleichheit    / (s)Fairness    / (s)Soziales Kapital
Datenträger:	Online-Ressource
Sprache:	eng
Form-SW:	Graue Literatur
K10plus-PPN:	102705322X
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