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Modeling Social Preferences: A Generalized Model of Inequity Aversion

Khan, Hayat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

parameters. The state could be fair, superior or inferior. Individuals in a fair state have zero equity-bias and split the pie … evenly. Those in a superior (inferior) state have positive (negative) equity-bias and value more (less) than fair …/structure assigns one of the three states to players which lead to individual specific valuation of equity. Prediction about outcomes …

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The Welfare Effects of Social Mobility: An Analysis for OECD countries.

Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The question whether a socially mobile society is conducive to subjective well-being (SWB) has rarely been investigated. This paper fills this gap by analyzing the SWB effects of intergenerational earnings mobility and equality in educational attainment at the societal level. Using...

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Ashamed to be Selfish, Second Version

Dillenberger, David; Sadowski, Philipp - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2008

We study a two-stage choice problem. In the first stage, the decision maker (DM) chooses a set of payoff-allocations between herself and a passive recipient. In the second stage, DM chooses an allocation from the set. The recipient is only aware of the second stage choice. Choosing selfishly in...

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Surviving the Titanic Disaster: Economic, Natural and Social Determinants

Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2009

The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third...

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Noblesse Oblige? Determinants of Survival in a Life and Death Situation

Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2008

This paper explored the determinants of survival in a life and death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested to see whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...

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Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines*

Karlan, Dean; Ashraf, Nava; Yin, Wesley - 2007

Female “empowerment” has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieving other development goals. Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a randomized controlled...

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Asymmetric Globalization: Global Markets Require Good Global Politics

Birdsall, Nancy - 2002

The paper sets out two views of the facts about the effects of globalization on world poverty and inequality. The bottom line: globalization is not the cause, but neither is it the solution to world poverty and inequality. The paper then explores why and how the global economy is stacked against...

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Heterogeneity and Common Pool Resources: Collective Management of Forests in Himachal Pradesh, India

Naidu, Sirisha C. - 2005

In the past two decades, theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that communities of resource users are capable of overcoming social dilemmas, and are capable of creating and sustaining institutions designed to prevent degradation of common pool natural resources. However, there is...

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Changes in Wage Inequality, 1970-1990.

Mincer, J. - Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences - 1996

Skill differentials in wages declined in the 1970's and rose in the 1980's, but aggregate wage inequality grew throughout the period. This divergence remains a puzzle in recent studies of U.S. wage inequality. In this paper the sometimes divergent paths of intergroup and intra-group inequality...

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Fairness, Price Stickiness, and History Dependence in Decentralized Trade

Korth, Christian; Napel, Stefan - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The paper investigates price formation in a decentralized market with random matching. Agents are assumed to have subdued social preferences: buyers, for example, prefer a lower price to a higher one but experience reduced utility increases below a reference price which serves as a common...

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