Intention and stochastic outcomes: An experimental study

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Charness, Gary; Levine, David I.
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02066.x
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 1051-1072
• 关键词: fairness; preferences; RECIPROCITY; COMPETITION; equity

摘要

Do people care about intentions - even when good intentions do not produce good results? In our experiments we find that rates of punishment and reward react strongly to intentions (the wage a firm decides to pay) and more modestly to distributional outcomes (the higher or lower wage actually received including the stochastic component). For example, workers who end up receiving medium wages respond much more positively when this resulted from the firm offering a high wage but bad luck lowered the worker's pay than when this resulted from the firm offering a low wage and good luck raised the pay.