The rate of deforestation in Africa is of paramount concern not only to the future of Africa, but also to the world … deforestation. Using generalized linear mixed models and generalised estimating equations, we were able to calculate expected …

of a meritocratic notion of desert under which team members care about receiving what they feel they deserve. Team … depending on whether preferences exhibit desert elation or desert guilt. Our notion of desert generalizes distributional concern … models to situations in which effort choices affect the distribution perceived to be fair; in particular, desert nests …

averse around their meritocratically determined endogenous reference points. In a fair tournament sufficiently large desert … average. In an unfair tournament, where one agent is advantaged, the equilibrium is symmetric in the absence of desert, but … asymmetric in the presence of desert. We find that desert concerns can undermine the standard conclusion that competition for a …