Process fairness, outcome fairness, and dynamic consistency: Experimental evidence for risk and ambiguity
通过实验研究人们在风险和模糊性下对过程公平与结果公平的态度,发现相当一部分人在不确定性消除前后都坚持过程公平,表现出动态一致性。
Literature on fairness preferences distinguishes between outcome fairness, concerning the final allocation of payoffs, and process fairness, concerning the expected allocation of payoffs. It is not obvious, however, whether process fairness can consistently be implemented. Once uncertainty is resolved and outcomes are determined, the ex-ante procedurally fair decision maker may become consequentialist ex-post, and reconsider her choice on the basis of the observed outcomes. We present experimental evidence on dynamic consistency of social preferences under both known risk and ambiguity. A significant share of people subscribe to process fairness both before and after the resolution of uncertainty.