Arbeitspapier

Cooperation Creates Special Moral Obligations

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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 7052

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
cooperation
distributive justice
redistribution

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Cappelen, Alexander W.
Gauri, Varun
Tungodden, Bertil
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2018

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Cappelen, Alexander W.
  • Gauri, Varun
  • Tungodden, Bertil
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2018

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