Promoting justice by treating people unequally: an experimental study
通过实验研究人们在分配资源时如何对待初始不平等，发现完全补偿或不补偿的公正行为是稳定模式，且受信息知晓和分配物品类型影响。
Abstract Which inequalities among individuals are considered unjust? This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to study distributive choices dealing with arbitrarily unequal initial endowments. In a three-person distribution problem where subjects either know or do not know their endowments, we find impartial behavior to be a stable pattern. Subjects either compensate for initial inequalities fully or not at all in both conditions, and they do so more often when they do not know their endowment than when they know it. Moreover, the type and the size of the good to be distributed also affect the frequency of impartial behavior.