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use of the representative German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) that offers data on the individual attitudes toward …, fairness considerations, economic beliefs and several other individual factors drive individual preferences for tax rate … in attitudes toward progressive taxation. Rather, we show that the choice of the favoured tax rate is also driven by …
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In this contribution we study the determinants of how individuals assess the social fairness of a given income …: first fairness preferences, second beliefs on the sources of economic success and the functioning of democracy and third … indicate that self-interest, beliefs and fairness preferences jointly shape fairness assessments. In addition, a number of …
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with respect to fairness and preference manipulation. We nd that envy-free procedures, in particular Selfridge-Conway, are … use this knowledge to improve their allocated share of the cake. Learning reduces truth-telling behavior, but also reduces …
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This paper demonstrates that cooperation in international environmental negotiations can be explained by preferences for equity. Within a N-country prisoner's dilemma in which agents can either cooperate or defect, in addition to the standard non-cooperative equilibrium, cooperation of a large...
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This paper introduces a solution for the fair division of common property resources in production economies with multiple inputs and outputs. It is derived from complementing the Walrasian solution by welfare bounds, whose ethical justification rests on commonality of ownership. We then apply...
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In this paper, we extend the Fehr and Schmidt model of inequality aversion to a situation where the players differ with respect to their benefits and costs from contributions to a non-linear public good. A necessary condition for contributing to the public good is that the players’ benefit...
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Given the vital and controversial debate on fairness concerns in international climate negotiations, the acceptance of … international climate negotiations to address the question whether negotiating weights for different fairness concepts may enlarge … the bargaining space among heterogeneous agents and overcome the currently dominating self-interested use of fairness …
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The objective of this paper is to present different equity rules that can be applied to the initial allocation of greenhouse gas entitlements and to analyse the potential impacts of these rules EU-wide as well as on the level of member states. The methodological framework used in the empirical...
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identify the causal effect of increased learning intensity on Inequality of Educational Opportunity (IEOp), the share in … learning intensity had no short-term effect on IEOp. In the medium term, however, IEOp increased as differences in parental … increasing the efficiency of educational systems and to the role of learning intensity for explaining changes in educational …
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This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
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