Data and Code for: Equity Concerns are Narrowly Framed

Distributional decisions regularly involve multiple payoff components. In a
series of experiments, we show that individuals sometimes exhibit narrow equity
concerns: applying fairness preferences narrowly, on a specific component of
payoffs, rather than on broader payoff consequences. This behavior results
in different distributional decisions depending on which payoff component we
frame individuals to consider. We document narrow equity concerns in an
exceedingly simple setting—in which payoff components are tokens worth 1
cent and 2 cents—and in context-rich applications including tax policy and
worker compensation.

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