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The Social Contract with Endogenous Sentiments

Cervellati, Matteo; Esteban, Joan; Kranich, Laurence - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper we present a model of rational voting over redistribution where individual selfesteem and relative esteem … standard and decreasing their esteem for those who work less. The desired extent of redistribution depends both on individual … particular type. Under these conditions equilibrium redistribution increases in response to larger inequality. In a “clustered …

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Who compares to whom? The anatomy of income comparisons in Europe

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - 2009

redistribution. The rich compare less and are more happy than average when they do, which latter is consistent with relative income …

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Who Compares to Whom? The Anatomy of Income Comparisons in Europe

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

redistribution. The rich compare less and are more happy than average when they do, which latter is consistent with relative income …

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An empirical analysis of the dynamics of the welfare state: the case of benefit morale

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2009

Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...

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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Incentives and prosocial behavior

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2005

We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this...

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Fighting Climate Change: The Role of Norms, Preferences, and Moral Values

Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Chopra, Felix; Falk, Armin - 2021

We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change – as measured through an incentivized donation decision – is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual...

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Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy

Ali, S. Nageeb; Benabou, Roland - 2016

We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...

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Laws and norms

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences (values), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals' behaviors and...

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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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