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generally the same in both treatments, in line with rule-based social preference models, like procedural fairness. …
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conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted … directly with people in Uganda and Tanzania, two of the world's poorest countries. In this experiment, the participants were …. First, entitlement considerations are crucial in explaining the distributive behavior of rich people in the experiment …
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decision making in an interpersonal context. The influence of social comparison on risky choices is explored in an experiment …
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …
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This paper investigates whether transactions where the buyer (or the seller) always moves first, and the seller (or the buyer) always moves second in the exchange gives higher payoffs than exchanges in which it is randomly determined who moves first. We examine the effect of two treatment...
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help of a survey and also observe actual agreements in a bargaining experiment with real money at stake. We find that the …
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In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a … method to decompose Income Satisfaction Inequality according to the contributions from variables such as income, education …
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type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables … well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. …
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This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- and between-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator since they avoid the measurement pitfalls of more … traditional measures of health such as morbidity, mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated …
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Private wealth holdings are likely to become an increasingly important determinant in the job exit decision of elderly workers. Net wealth may correlate with worker's characteristics that also determine the exit out of a job. It is therefore important to include a rich set of observed...
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