rates and school performance, health, labor supply, and lifetime income. Males and high ability children gain significantly …

In Rawls' (1971) influential social contract approach to distributive justice, the fair income distribution is the one … prospect theory instead, which better describes behavior under risk. I find that the specific type of inequality in bottom … optimal inequality result contrasts the implications of other social welfare criteria. …

Is competition perceived as a fair procedure? We report data from laboratory experiments where a powerful buyer can … inform the debate on the fairness of market outcomes by showing that the use of a competitive procedure can, by itself …

laboratory experiment in which subjects lack any private material incentive to report partners' actions, we find that most …

differences in the interpretation of the context. We test this hypothesis by conducting two social dilemma experiments in the US … and Israel with participants from both economics and non-economics majors. In the experiments, participants face a …

-applicable model of path-dependent fairness preferences, in which past experiences shape preferences, and we experimentally test the …' fairness concerns, making them more likely to accept transactions in which they receive a low share of the surplus. Consistent …

There are large differences in health across neighborhoods in Sweden. To try to answer if there is a causal link … between neighborhood conditions in childhood and youth health, I apply two different empirical strategies. First, I use … health using data on families that move across the country. Since the choice of moving and where to live is endogenous, I …

. Calibrating the model to the United States, we find that health inequality is an important source of lifetime earnings inequality …Using a dynamic panel approach, we provide empirical evidence that negative health shocks reduce earnings. The effect … health. We build a dynamic, general equilibrium, life cycle model that is consistent with these findings. In the model …

Superstition is a widespread phenomenon. We empirically examine its impact on health-related behavior and health … bad outcomes, we observe substantial adaptions in health-related behavior. Our identification exploits idiosyncratic … is a quantum effect, the latter two effects reflect changes in the timing of events. Efficient public health policy …

What change in the distribution of a population's health preserves the level of inequality? The answer to this … positions represent the absolute and relative inequality equivalence criterion (IEC), respectively. A bounded health variable … analogous question in the context of income inequality lies somewhere between a uniform and a proportional change. These polar …