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The influence of relative wealth on fairness considerations is analyzed in an ultimatum game experiment in which … participants receive large and widely unequal initial endowments. Subjects initially demonstrate a concern for fairness. With time … however, behavior becomes at odds with both subgame perfection and fairness. Evidence of learning is detected for both …
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? Coordinating Approaches to Promote Well-being and Mental Health, qui s'appuie sur le cadre d'évaluation du bien-être de l'OCDE pour …
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The explanation of social inequalities in education is still a debated issue in economics. Recent empirical studies tend to downplay the potential role of credit constraint. This article tests a different potential explanation of social inequalities in education, specifically that social...
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This study experimentally tests whether a modification to the centralized quota sales system is capable of lowering the price of the milk quota in Québec, while at the same time minimizing the negative impacts on the auction's efficiency. This modification consists of applying two treatments on...
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We make use of experimental economics to examine how people adjust their supply of work effort in response to a variation in tax rates. Participants are paired in the experiment. In each pair, one participant randomly chosen has to exert an effort and is taxed to the benefit of the other...
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This experiment evaluates various systems of taxation on the number of real tasks performed by participants and in terms of fiscal income generated to help government in its redistributive goal. The first treatment concerns a proportional system of taxation. The second treatment considers an...
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In this general equilibrium model, justice and police institutions are treated as a mechanism that induces individuals to extend some desirable productive effort. This determines individual encroachment activities which in turn determine the proportion of aggregate production that fails to be...
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Avec les mutations économiques et technologiques enregistrées au cours des dernières décennies, les perspectives économiques individuelles sont aujourd’hui plus incertaines qu’autrefois. La présente synthèse résume les principales conclusions du rapport Un équilibre précaire ?...
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Data from a field experiment are used to estimate the gain in productivity that is realized when workers are paid piece rates rather than fixed wages. The experiment was conducted within a tree-planting firm and provides daily observations on individual worker productivity under both copensation...
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We present in this paper some characteristics of the interactions between the private and public sectors in health … overcoming the most important impediment to a betterment of the health system in Québec and Canada, namely the irrational … opposition of numerous political and special interest groups to a significant presence of private health care insurers and …
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