In this article, we discuss concepts of procedural fairness and equality of opportunity, and
review the descriptive evidence regarding such procedural fairness preferences and their …

Myriad environments allow for the possibility of confusion. Agents may appeal to such
confusion—or the possibility of making an honest mistake—to justify their behavior. In three …

Theoretical and empirical findings suggest that individuals are sensitive to the observability
of their actions and the downstream consequences of this observability. We connect three …

Inequality is often associated with negative societal consequences, but identifying a causal
relationship is a daunting task. We provide evidence on the impact of unjust economic …

Goods and services are often allocated to those who spend the most resources. In many
cases, this results in allocation to people who spend the most money. But people can use a …

It is well known that price and quantity regulation are not equivalent under uncertainty. This
asymmetry has been a factor in the debate about whether to use taxes or Tradable Permit …

Experiments suggest that people fail to take into account interdependencies between their
choices—they do not broadly bracket. Researchers often instead assume people narrowly …

We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment to identify parents' preferences for investing in their
children. The experiment exogenously varied the short-run returns to educational …

Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggest that observability of behavior
acts as an instrument for promoting (discouraging) pro-social (anti-social) behavior. We …

We extend a collective action problem to study policy and project selection by
heterogeneous groups who prefer to work together on a joint initiative but may disagree on …