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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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We conduct an interdisciplinary meta-analysis to aggregate the knowledge from empirical estimates of inequality … aversion reported from 1999 to 2022. In particular, we examine 85 estimates of disadvantageous inequality aversion (or envy …) and advantageous inequality aversion (or guilt) from 26 articles in economics, psychology, neuroscience and computer …
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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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the materially disadvantaged player cares more for social welfare than about inequality. Behavioral preferences of … disadvantaged players actually increase inequality. We also investigate when players give up an advantageous sharing rule. Power …-sharing can be successful in the experiment, even when it is not in a selfish world. -- experiments ; incomplete contracts …
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Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design exogenously varies the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on...
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We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries- Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly different...
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There is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, but only little … evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conduct a two-year, face … those misperceptions does not affect their support for policies related to global inequality. …
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