In countries where health care is publicly provided and where equity considerations play an important role in policy … well-off in society. The present paper derives socially optimal co-payments in a simple model of health care where people …

Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes … overview of the literature on the measurement of inequality aversion, examines some of the features specific of the health … find evidence that individuals exhibit a preference for more equitable health distribution, but inequality aversion …

We link survey data containing Danish people’s perceptions of where they rank in various reference groups and fairness … positions well, but believe others are closer to themselves than they really are. The perceived fairness of inequalities is …-workers as most unfair, but underestimate inequality the most exactly within these reference groups. …

We show experimentally that fairness concerns may have a decisive impact on both the actual and the optimal choice of … inferior when some agents value fairness. Conversely, implicit bonus contracts that are doomed to fail among purely selfish … recently developed theories of fairness, which also offer interesting new insights into the interaction of contract choices …

We show that concerns for fairness may have dramatic consequences for the optimal provision of incentives in a moral … concerned about fairness. Conversely, contracts that are doomed to fail when there are only selfish actors provide powerful … of a series of experiments. Furthermore, our results suggest that the existence of fair actors may be an important reason …