Cooperation Creates Special Moral Obligations

Cooperation Creates Special Moral Obligations

A large-scale economic experiment, conducted on a representative sample of the US population, shows that cooperation creates special moral obligations. Participants in the experiment, acting as impartial spectators, transferred significantly more m...

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Main Authors: Cappelen, Alexander, Gauri, Varun, Tungodden, Bertil
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:
COOPERATION
MORAL OBLIGATION
POLITICAL ECONOMY
REDISTRIBUTION
INEQUALITY
GOVERNANCE
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/639511531483537757/Cooperation-creates-special-moral-obligations
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spelling okr-10986-300042021-06-08T14:42:46Z Cooperation Creates Special Moral Obligations Cappelen, Alexander Gauri, Varun Tungodden, Bertil COOPERATION MORAL OBLIGATION POLITICAL ECONOMY REDISTRIBUTION INEQUALITY GOVERNANCE A large-scale economic experiment, conducted on a representative sample of the US population, shows that cooperation creates special moral obligations. Participants in the experiment, acting as impartial spectators, transferred significantly more money to an unlucky worker when two individuals had cooperated than when they had worked independently. The authors further show that the effect of cooperation is strongly associated with political affiliation, with Democrats attaching significantly more importance to cooperation as a source of moral obligation than Republicans. The findings shed light on the foundations of redistributive preferences and may contribute to explain the often observed asymmetry in moral concern for different groups of individuals, both nationally and internationally. 2018-07-16T16:04:46Z 2018-07-16T16:04:46Z 2018-07 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/639511531483537757/Cooperation-creates-special-moral-obligations http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30004 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8531 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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topic COOPERATION
MORAL OBLIGATION
POLITICAL ECONOMY
REDISTRIBUTION
INEQUALITY
GOVERNANCE
spellingShingle COOPERATION
MORAL OBLIGATION
POLITICAL ECONOMY
REDISTRIBUTION
INEQUALITY
GOVERNANCE
Cappelen, Alexander
Gauri, Varun
Tungodden, Bertil
Cooperation Creates Special Moral Obligations
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8531
description A large-scale economic experiment, conducted on a representative sample of the US population, shows that cooperation creates special moral obligations. Participants in the experiment, acting as impartial spectators, transferred significantly more money to an unlucky worker when two individuals had cooperated than when they had worked independently. The authors further show that the effect of cooperation is strongly associated with political affiliation, with Democrats attaching significantly more importance to cooperation as a source of moral obligation than Republicans. The findings shed light on the foundations of redistributive preferences and may contribute to explain the often observed asymmetry in moral concern for different groups of individuals, both nationally and internationally.
format Working Paper
author Cappelen, Alexander
Gauri, Varun
Tungodden, Bertil
author_facet Cappelen, Alexander
Gauri, Varun
Tungodden, Bertil
author_sort Cappelen, Alexander
title Cooperation Creates Special Moral Obligations
title_short Cooperation Creates Special Moral Obligations
title_full Cooperation Creates Special Moral Obligations
title_fullStr Cooperation Creates Special Moral Obligations
title_full_unstemmed Cooperation Creates Special Moral Obligations
title_sort cooperation creates special moral obligations
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2018
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/639511531483537757/Cooperation-creates-special-moral-obligations
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30004
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