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This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of the social environment in shaping the accuracy of self-assessment. We introduce a novel incentivized measurement tool to measure the accuracy of self-assessment among children and use this tool to show that children from high...
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We examine whether belief-based preferences - caring about what transgressors believe - play a crucial role in punishment decisions: Do punishers want to make sure that transgressors understand why they are being punished, and is this desire to affect beliefs often prioritized over distributive...
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We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries- Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly different...
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We use surveys, laboratory experiments and administrative labor-market data to study how heterogeneity in the perceived …
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the international comparison in degrees of revealed inequality aversion, but differences in social preferences are …
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measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …
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experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality …To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
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We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large … inequality trends throughout the period covering the public health insurance coverage expansions in the two countries. We find …-sensitivity parameter used; however, the regional pattern of SAH inequality is clearly associated with health-insurance coverage expansions …
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source of inequality and the cost of redistribution. We show that Americans and Norwegians differ significantly in fairness …There is a striking difference in income inequality and redistributive policies between the United States and … views, but not in the importance assigned to efficiency. The study also provides robust causal evidence of fairness …
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inequality in the US and the entire rise in Denmark. Cardiovascular mortality declines favored the poor, but differences in … lifestyle-related survivability led inequality to rise. …
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