In this article, we examine the role played by heterogeneity in the popular “connections model” of Jackson and Wolinsky (J Econ Theory 71(1):355–365, <CitationRef CitationID="CR5">1996</CitationRef>). We prove that when heterogeneity with respect to the values of resources, or the information decay parameter, depends on the identity...</citationref>

We examine individuals’ distributional orderings in a number of contexts. This is done by using a questionnaire-experiment that is presented to respondents in any one of seven “flavors” or interpretations of the basic distributional problem. The flavors include inequality, risk, social...