More satisfaction, less equality: distributive effects of transparent needs in a laboratory experiment

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• What: To examine how reliable and objective information about individual, potentially heterogeneous, need thresholds affects the distribution of a limited resource, the authors focus on the smallest possible constitution of a society, a triad. The authors have studied the effect of transparent need thresholds on the prevalence of the need principle in a controlled environment. Lastly, while the purpose of this study was to identify the distributional effects of transparent and opaque need thresholds conditional on the network position and the magnitude of the need thresholds, the authors were less concerned about the psychological drivers of the . . .
  

   

  

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