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Absolute vs. relative poverty and wealth : cooperation in the presence of between-group inequality

Levi, Eugenio; Ramalingam, Abhijit - 2023

While inequality in resource endowments has been shown to affect cooperation levels in groups, much of this evidence comes from studies of within-group inequality. In an online public goods experiment, we instead examine the effects of payoff-irrelevant inequality in resources between groups on...

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Lifting the veil of ignorance : survey experiments on preferences for wealth redistribution

Stumpf, Elisa; Übelmesser, Silke - 2024

We study beliefs about wealth inequality and preferences for wealth redistribution. For this, we conduct a large …-scale online survey in Germany. First, we analyze how well participants are informed about the German wealth distribution and their … position in it. Second, we investigate how preferences for wealth redistribution are affected by an information experiment. One …

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Communication matters : sensitivity in fairness evaluations across wealth inequality expressions and levels

Oppel, Annalena - 2023

individuals' fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality …'s contribution highlights the importance of 'intuitive' measures of political matters such as wealth inequality. It further indicates …

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Endowment inequality in public goods games : a re-examination

Heap, Shaun Hargreaves; Ramalingam, Abhijit; Stoddard, … - In: Economics letters 146 (2016), pp. 4-7

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The impact of tax evasion by the rich on the willingness to pay taxes

Campos-Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Cepeda-Francese, Camilo A.; … - In: Applied economics letters 32 (2025) 4, pp. 553-556

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Measuring the joint distribution of household income, consumption and wealth at the micro level : methodological issues and experimental results

Balestra, Carlotta; Oehler, Friderike - Europäische Kommission / Statistisches Amt; OECD - 2023 - Edition 2023

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Is increasing inequality harmful? : experimental evidence

Fehr, Dietmar - 2015

Increasing inequality is commonly associated with social unrest and conflict between social classes. This paper reports the results of a laboratory experiment to study the implications of rising inequality on the tendency to burn others' income. The experiment considers an environment where...

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"Less is more" or "more is better"? : the effect of asymmetric information distribution on market efficiency and wealth inequality

Caferra, Rocco; Nuzzo, Simone; Morone, Andrea - In: Journal of economic interaction and coordination 18 (2023) 2, pp. 233-250

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The social preferences of democratically elected decision makers and the conflict between wealth generation and distribution

Gaudeul, Alexia; Keser, Claudia - 2017

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The social preferences of democratically elected decision makers and the conflict between wealth generation and distribution

Gaudeul, Alexia; Keser, Claudia - 2017

-oriented, but also more altruistic, than leaders who are selected at random or by ability. Because wealth generation and …

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