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This study examines the uneven effects of air pollution from maritime ports on physical and mental health across racial … traffic influences air pollution and human health. We find that one additional vessel in a port over a year leads to 3 …-related environmental regulation and show that the policy can help alleviate racial inequalities in health outcomes. …
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investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is amplified by suspicious success - achievements that may arise from … cheating. Using a laboratory experiment, I exogenously vary cheating opportunities for stakeholders who work on a real effort … to different views on whether to accept inequality. Left-wing spectators substantially reduce inequality when cheating is …
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We develop and implement a new measure for inequality aversion: two peers are endowed with identical binary lotteries … correlation (coupling). Coupling has no other e ect than preventing outcome inequality. We implement the method in a survey in …
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disclosing transaction-level wage information on consumer preferences. Six experiments, both in field and lab settings across …
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and service-oriented tasks across all workers, but exacerbates health inequality between cognitive and manual workers … technologies, and workers’ health outcomes using novel and representative German linked employer-employee data. Based on changes in … manual workers’ subjective health and increase sick leave, while leaving cognitive workers unaffected. We provide evidence …
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across experiments. …
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This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socioeconomic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to...
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the experiment. These results support the notion that fairness preferences as assessed in laboratory experiments capture … and contested issue. We investigate how fairness in a laboratory experiment framed explicitly as a market exchange relates … to preferences for fair trade products before and after the market experiment. We find that the willingness to buy at a …
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this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is …
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underlying inequality, differing fairness views, and differing perceptions of social norms. In this study, we directly measure … experiment, participants complete real-effort tasks and then are randomly assigned a high or low pay rate per correct answer to … report different fairness views and beliefs about task performance, but not different beliefs about social norms. Further …
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