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To what extent do fiscal regimes equalize opportunities for income acquisitions among citizens?

Roemer, John E.; Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; … - 2000

This project employs the theory of opportunity, described in Roemer''s book (Equality of Opportunity, Harvard University Press, 1998), to compute the extent to which tax-and-transfer regimes in ten countries equalize opportunities among citizens for income acquisition. Roughly speaking, equality...

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Reputation transmission without benefit to the reporter: A behavioral underpinning of markets in experimental focus

Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis - 2015

Reputation is a commonly cited check on opportunism in economic and social interactions. But it is often unclear what … laboratory experiment in which subjects lack any private material incentive to report partners' actions, we find that most …

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Caste and wealth inequality in India

Zacharias, Ajit; Vakulabharanam, Vamsi - 2009

In this paper, we conduct the novel exercise of analyzing the relationship between overall wealth inequality and caste divisions in India using nationally representative surveys on household wealth conducted during 199192 and 200203. According to our findings, the groups in India that are...

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The Great Recession and racial inequality: Evidence from measures of economic well-being

Masterson, Thomas; Zacharias, Ajit; Rios-Avila, Fernando; … - 2017

The Great Recession had a tremendous impact on low-income Americans, in particular black and Latino Americans. The losses in terms of employment and earnings are matched only by the losses in terms of real wealth. In many ways, however, these losses are merely a continuation of trends that have...

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Public or private job matching for immigrant workers an outline of a Swedish social experiment

Carling, Kenneth; Bennmarker, Helge; Forslund, Anders - 2001

Evaluations of labour market programs and other related measures typically make use of observational data. This paper presents an outline for producing experimental data in the interest of testing a proposed measure targeted to un-employed immigrant workers. The idea is to offer them placement...

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Compulsory Voting and Public Finance

Hodler, Roland - 2010

Conventional wisdom suggests that compulsory voting lowers the influence of specialinterest groups and leads to policies that are better for less privileged citizens, who often abstain when voting is voluntary. To scrutinize this conventional wisdom, I study public goods provision and rents to...

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Potterian economics

Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2022

Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience offer systematic evidence that fictional works exert a surprisingly strong influence on readers and have the power to shape their opinions and worldviews. Building on these findings, we study 'Potterian economics', the economic ideas, insights, and...

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Potterian economics

Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2017

Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...

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Discrimination against female migrants wearing headscarves

Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2016

into the labor market is crucial. Hence, a field experiment was conducted that examined the employment chances of females … migrants, who have constituted a large demographic group in Germany since the 1970s. In the field experiment presented here … photograph included in the application material. Germany was the ideal location for the experiment as job seekers typically …

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Inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in East and West Germany

Kuhn, Andreas - 2011

This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures. Surprisingly, however, differences in distributional norms are...

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