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complementarities between controlled lab and representative field data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by … experiment we record agents' heart rate variability, which is an indicator of stress-related impaired cardiac autonomic control … potential adverse health effects of unfair pay using data from a large representative data set. The analysis includes cross …
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particular cardiovascular health, and fairness of pay. …This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment … experiment we record agents' heart rate variability. The latter is an indicator of stress-related impaired cardiac autonomic …
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survival depends on health capital produced from time investment and health goods. Higher fundamental inequality, working … inequality worsen because the poor have less capacity to respond. By diverting resources from health production, aspirations also … that inequality has a weaker effect on population health, explaining an empirical puzzle on the relative income and health …
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measurement of inequality of health distributions referring to these two dimensions. Our analysis relies on a novel treatment of … (absolute and relative) multidimensional health inequality indices, inspired by the classical normative approach to income … inequality measurement. We also discuss how to extend the analysis to deal with the related problem of health deprivation …
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Four kinds of distributional preferences are explored: inequality aversion in health, inequality aversion in income …, risk aversion in health, and risk aversion in income. Face to face interviews of a representative sample of the general … public are undertaken using hypothetical scenarios involving losses in either health or income. Whilst in health risk …
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measurement of inequality of health distributions referring to these two dimensions. Our analysis relies on a novel treatment of … (absolute and relative) multidimensional health inequality indices, inspired by the classical normative approach to income … inequality measurement. We also discuss how to extend the analysis to deal with the related problem of health deprivation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010679314
This study evaluates people’s concerns for distributive fairness (equality of outcomes and payoffs to those worse …-off) and reciprocal fairness (receiving what one is due based on one’s past actions) using dictator, ultimatum, and trust games … distributive fairness, we identify positive offers as first movers in both games as evidence of expectations of reciprocity by …
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We study how individuals adjust their judgment of fairness and unfairness when they are in the position of spectators …
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An inequality measure is consistent if it ranks distributions the same irrespective of whether health quantities are … represented in terms of attainment or shortfalls. This consistency property severely restricts the set of admissible inequality … condition, the restrictions onthe admissible inequality measures disappear. …
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This discussion paper resulted in the publication 'Wealth and Health Behavior: Testing the Concept of a Health Cost … phenomenon by developing a theory of health behavior, and exploiting both lottery winnings and inheritances to test the theory …. We distinguish between the direct monetary cost and the indirect health cost (value of health lost) of unhealthy …
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