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Social norms on rent seeking and preferences for redistribution

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco; Yamamura, Eiji - 2014 - Preprint

Empirical studies have shown that preferences for redistribution are significantly correlated with expectations of … significantly and positively affects preferences for redistribution. On the other hand, living in an area where most citizens do not … stigmatize rent seeking, makes men more favourable to redistribution, which may be seen as a social equalizer in an unfair …

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The Effect of Social Norms Estimation on Non-Strategic Giving : Controlling for the Role of Numeric Anchoring and Extra Monetary Prospects

Senci, Maximiliano - 2017

Making participants estimate the prescriptive norm increases generosity in a Dictator Game (DG). Authors have interpreted this result in terms of Norm Focus Theory (Cialdini et al., 1990). Nonetheless, non-normative explanations have not been discarded yet. We replicated the effect of...

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Social norms and welfare state dynamics

Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten; Weibull, Jörg - 2003

The paper analyses the interaction between economic incentives and work norms in the context of social insurance. If the work norm is endogenous in the sense that it is weaker when the population share of beneficiaries is higher, then voters will choose less generous bene.ts than otherwise. We...

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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers

Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006

additional limit to redistribution is the fact that even very altruistic agents can deliberately reduce its scope because of its …

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On the collective choice among models of social protection : an experimental study

Farina, Francesco; Ottone, Stefania; Ponzano, Ferruccio - In: Games 10 (2019) 4/41, pp. 1-17

A real-effort experiment is conducted in order to detect preferences for one out of three different models of the Welfare State characterized by different tax-and-transfer schemes. We reproduce a small society in the lab where: Subjects are grouped in three stylized classes (the rich, the middle...

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Rent-Seeking Induced Inequality Traps

Chaturvedi, Mayuri - 2016

Does inequality affect rent-seeking and vice-versa? Social scientists have argued that inequality fosters rent-seeking and that rent-seeking is likely to reinforce existing inequalities. In this paper, I model rent-seeking in an unequal endowment economy to analyze the conditions under which an...

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Distributional and welfare effects of replacing monetary benefits with iniversal basic income in Spain

Badenes Plá, Nuria; Gambau-Suelves, Borja; Navas … - 2019

This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the monetary benefits currently in place in the Spanish system were to be replaced by a neutral alternative in terms of spending, granting a universal basic income (UBI) to everyone. We...

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Migration and the welfare state : the economic power of the non-voter?

Börner, Kira Astrid; Übelmesser, Silke - 2005

redistribution policies. The interaction of the two effects has so far not been analyzed in isolation. We find that the direction of … and redistribution levels. …

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Migration and the welfare state : the economic power of the non-voter?

Börner, Kira Astrid; Übelmesser, Silke - 2005

redistribution policies. The interaction of the two effects has so far not been analyzed in isolation. We find that the direction of … and redistribution levels. …

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Fairness and the unselfish demand for redistribution by taxpayers and welfare recipients

Sabatini, Fabio; Ventura, Marco; Yamamura, Eiji; … - 2017

unselfish though rational demand for redistribution. This leads the well off to prefer higher taxes and the poor to reject … redistribution by individuals with high income and to a lower demand for redistribution by those with low income. …

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