A model of social duties

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We develop a formal model of social duties. Duties to respect entitlements (duties of justice) differ from duties to promote well-being (duties of charity). A situationspecific version of our model takes entitlements as primitives. A fully portable version derives entitlements from situational characteristics. Utility functions obtain kinks where duties of justice and charity are exactly satisfied. Actions at these kinks are candidates for descriptive social norms. Empirically, duties are identified using Krupka-Weber appropriateness ratings, with negative ratings indicating entitlement violations. The model's predictions are confronted with established regularities and new survey evidence in seven pre-registered applications.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2022:14

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡ ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Subject: Social norms ; Social morality ; Entitlements ; Dutifulness ; Charity

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Ellingsen, Tore ; Mohlin, Erik
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics
• (where): Lund
• (when): 2022

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/273644
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET