We study the manipulation of preferences over redistribution. Previous work showed that preferences over redistribution are malleable by the experience of success or failure in a preceding real-effort task. We manipulate the information subjects receive about the importance of chance relative to effort in determining success. We investigate the effect of this manipulation on (1) subjects’ redistribution choices affecting third parties, and (2) preferences for redistributive taxation. Our results show that informing the subjects about the relative importance of chance after the real-effort task does not mitigate the self-serving bias in redistribution choices. Only providing full information before the real-effort task prevents the emergence of the self-serving bias.

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消除偏好再分配：实验

我们研究了对再分配的偏好操纵。先前的工作表明，对重新分配的偏爱可以通过先前的实际工作中的成功或失败经验来延展。我们操纵信息主体获得的信息，即机会对决定成功的重要性。我们研究了这种操纵对（1）主体影响第三方的重新分配选择以及（2）重新分配税收的偏好的影响。我们的结果表明，在完成实际工作后告知受试者机会的相对重要性并不能减轻重新分配选择中的自我服务偏见。只有在实际工作之前提供完整的信息，才能防止出现自我服务偏差。