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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution. …

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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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Laws and Norms

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

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'...

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How Did Distributional Preferences Change During the Great Recession?

Fisman, Raymond; Jakiela, Pamela; Kariv, Shachar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We compare behavior in experiments measuring distributional preferences during the "Great Recession" to behavior in identical experiments conducted during the preceding economic boom. Subjects are drawn from a diverse pool of students whose socioeconomic composition is largely held constant by...

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Risk Sharing, Inequality and Fertility

Jones, Larry E.; Hosseini, Roozbeh; Shourideh, Ali - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We use an extended Barro-Becker model of endogenous fertility, in which parents are heterogeneous in their labor productivity, to study the efficient degree of consumption inequality in the long run. In our environment a utilitarian planner allows for consumption inequality even when labor...

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The Behavioralist Meets the Market: Measuring Social Preferences and Reputation Effects in Actual Transactions

list, john - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

The role of the market in mitigating and mediating various forms of behavior is perhaps the central issue facing behavioral economics today. This study designs a field experiment that is explicitly linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to examine whether, and to what extent, social...

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Do Race and Fairness Matter in Generosity? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Charity Experiment

Luttmer, Erzo F.P.; Fong, Christina M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We present a dictator game experiment where the recipients are local charities that serve the poor. Donors consist of approximately 1000 participants from a nationally representative respondent panel that is maintained by a private survey research firm, Knowledge Networks. We randomly manipulate...

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What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Income, Race, and Fairness

Luttmer, Erzo F.P.; Fong, Christina M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We investigate determinants of private and public generosity to Katrina victims using an artifactual field experiment. In this experiment, respondents from the general population viewed a short audiovisual presentation that manipulated respondents' perceptions of the income, race, and...

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Envy, Altruism, and the International Distribution of Trade Protection

Lü, Xiaobo; Scheve, Kenneth F.; Slaughter, Matthew J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

One important puzzle in international political economy is why lower-earning and less-skilled intensive industries tend to receive relatively high levels of trade protection. This pattern of protection holds even in low-income countries in which less-skilled labor is likely to be the relatively...

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Attitude-Dependent Altruism, Turnout and Voting

Rotemberg, Julio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper presents a goal-oriented model of political participation based on two psychological assumptions. The first is that people are more altruistic towards individuals that agree with them and the second is that people's well-being rises when other people share their personal opinions. The...

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