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Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can … shading. To analyze fairness perceptions associated with competitive mechanisms, we run laboratory experiments where a single … powerful buyer can trade with one of several sellers- an environment that can lead to pronounced inequality among the …
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relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …
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This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of the social environment in shaping the accuracy of self-assessment. We introduce a novel incentivized measurement tool to measure the accuracy of self-assessment among children and use this tool to show that children from high...
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the role of status inequality on violence suggests an important societal cost of economic and social inequalities. …
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, and help to explain the gap between lab evidence on support for redistribution and U.S. inequality trends. …
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We examine whether belief-based preferences - caring about what transgressors believe - play a crucial role in punishment decisions: Do punishers want to make sure that transgressors understand why they are being punished, and is this desire to affect beliefs often prioritized over distributive...
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The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from … winner-take-all reward structures. We find that the majority of participants consider extreme income inequality generated in …" fairness argument for no redistribution: the winner deserves all the earnings because these earnings were determined by his or …
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differs from the students’ distribution. In the general population, three types emerge: an inequality averse, an altruistic … of an inequality averse type in the student population is particularly striking considering the fact that this type …
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fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and …
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inequality aversion over current consumption allocations. Inequality aversion lifts the consumption path of the poor region …, while the rich region must take a greater share of the climate burden. Furthermore, with inequality aversion, the optimal …. However, loans to poor countries to reduce inequality may result in a debt crisis, and hence, debt remittance may be part of …
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