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fairness makes it focal or because many individuals dislike payoff inequities, as abundant experimental evidence suggests. In …
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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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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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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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'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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Meritocracies aspire to reward hard work and promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances into which they were born. However, circumstances often shape the choice to work hard. I show that people's merit judgments are "shallow" and insensitive to this effect. They hold others...
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health and education government spending on income inequality in the European Union over the 2002-2015 period. In this …
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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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, altruism and concern for inequality. We find that decision makers who are selected democratically are generally more efficiency …
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investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is amplified by suspicious success - achievements that may arise from … to different views on whether to accept inequality. Left-wing spectators substantially reduce inequality when cheating is …. These results suggest that redistributive preferences will diverge even more once public awareness increases that inequality …
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