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associations with the allocations to estimate responsibility-sensitive weights that reflect inequality aversion and health … non-smokers, respectively. Inequality aversion lowers weights on females and non-smokers, who are health-advantaged, and …We estimate responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health that facilitate inequalityand inequity-sensitive policy …
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We design a novel experiment to identify aversion to pure (univariate) health inequality separately from aversion to … income-related and income-caused health inequality. Participants allocate resources to determine health of individuals … preferences while accounting for noise. The median person has strong aversion to pure health inequality, challenging the health …
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subjects are exposed to random shocks. We find that aggregate behavior is ex-post and ex-ante inequality averse, but also that … the other. The first presentation draws attention to inequality in payoffs, the second to collective risk. We find that … conclude that ex-post inequality aversion is the primary concern in the evaluation of social lotteries while collective risk is …
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's merit judgments are sensitive to this endogeneity of choice. In a series of incentivized experiments with a large … strongly influenced by circumstances. Additional experiments identify the cause of this neglect. In light of an uncertain …
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inequality, focusing on two channels, fairness views and communication. First, we confirm the finding that inequality resulting … societies occupy top positions in inequality rankings, redistribution levels tend to be lower. We combine survey and … from differences in merit is more accepted than inequality due to luck or factors outside of individual control. We also …
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We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental … designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …
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The article is concerned with understanding the impact of social preferences and wealth inequality on aggregate … microeconomic level and how these in turn translate into macroeconomic outcomes. Increasing the workers' sensitivity to inequality … wealth differences raise aggregate profit and output but entail distributional utility losses and increased inequality …
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Air pollution generates vast health burdens and economic costs around the world. Pollution exposure varies greatly …, both between countries and within them. But the degree of air quality inequality and its' trajectory have not been … quantified at a global level. I use economic inequality indices to measure global inequality in exposure to ambient fine …
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We conduct an interdisciplinary meta-analysis to aggregate the knowledge from empirical estimates of inequality … aversion reported from 1999 to 2022. In particular, we examine 85 estimates of disadvantageous inequality aversion (or envy …) and advantageous inequality aversion (or guilt) from 26 articles in economics, psychology, neuroscience and computer …
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theories, such as inequality-averse social welfare functions or fairness criteria. It is shown how both approaches can be …
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