Fair cake-cutting in practice

Maria Kyropoulou, Josue Ortega and Erel Segal-Halevi

Games and Economic Behavior, 2022, vol. 133, issue C, 28-49

Abstract: Using two lab experiments, we investigate the real-life performance of envy-free and proportional cake-cutting procedures with respect to fairness and preference manipulation. Although the observed subjects' strategic behavior eliminates the fairness guarantees of envy-free procedures, we nonetheless find evidence that suggests that envy-free procedures are fairer than their proportional counterparts.

Keywords: Cake-cutting; Selfridge-Conway; Cut-and-choose; Envy; Fairness; Preference manipulation; Experimentation and learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C71 C91 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2022.01.027

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