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The impact of government health and education expenditure on income inequality in EU
Jianu, Ionuț - 2018
health and education government spending on income inequality in the European Union over the 2002-2015 period. In this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985581
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Choosing Who You Are: The Structure and Behavioral Effects of Revealed Identification Preferences
Hett, Florian; Kröll, Markus; Mechtel, Mario - 2017
Social identity is an important driver of behavior. But where do difierences in social identity come from? We use a novel laboratory experiment based on a revealed preference approach to analyze how individuals choose their identity. Facing a trade-off between monetary payments and belonging to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011712736
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Decisions under Uncertainty in Social Contexts
Rau, Holger; Müller, Stephan - 2017
interdependence of individual risk attitudes and inequality aversion as two decisive behavioral determinants in such contexts. Our … amplified under favorable income inequality. People's choices are also are sensitive to their degree of inequality aversion. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011712741
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Dictating the Risks - Experimental Evidence on Norms of Giving in Risky Environments
Lange, Andreas; Brock, J. Michelle; Ozbay, Erkut Y. - 2010
We study if and how social preferences extend to risky environments. By providing experimental evidence on different versions of dictator games with risky outcomes, we establish that social preferences of players who give in standard dictator games are best described by concerns for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273622
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Can income inequality contribute to understand inequalities in health? An empirical approach based on the European Community Household Panel
Cantarero, David; Pascual, Marta; Sarabia, Jose Maria - 2004
concentration indices for socioeconomic inequality in health based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) is presented … WORDS: Inequality, Health, Social Capital, European Community Household Panel, Ordered probit. JEL CATEGORY: D31, D63, I10 …In this paper the causal effects of socioeconomic status, in particular income, on individuals health in the European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318848
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Hidden skewness: On the difficulty of multiplicative compounding under random shocks
Zankiewicz, Christian; Ensthaler, Ludwig; Nottmeyer, Olga; … - 2015
a series of incentivized laboratory experiments we show that a large majority of participants either strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301411
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Social Reference Points and Risk Taking
Schwerter, Frederik - 2015
We test whether social reference points impact individual risk taking. In a laboratory experiment, decision makers observe the earnings of a peer subject before making a risky choice. We exogenously manipulate the peer earnings across two treatments. We find a significant treatment effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301485
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Who cares for social image? Interactions between intrinsic motivation and social image concerns
Friedrichsen, Jana; Engelmann, Dirk - 2013
We consider the interaction of intrinsic motivation and concerns for social approval in a laboratory experiment. We elicit a proxy for Fairtrade preferences before the experiment. In the experiment, we elicit willingness to pay for conventional and Fairtrade chocolate. Treatments vary whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329282
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Reference Points, Social Norms, and Fairness in Contract Renegotiations
Bartling, Björn; Schmidt, Klaus - 2013
Do contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior? We address this question in a canonical buyer-seller relationship with renegotiation. Our paper provides causal experimental evidence that an initial contract has a highly significant and economically important impact on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329338
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Bidding in common value fair division games
Brünner, Tobias; Becker, Alice - 2013
In a fair division game an indivisible object with an unknown common value is owned by a group of individuals and should be allocated to one of them while the others are compensated monetarily. Implementing fair division games in the lab, we fi nd many occurrences of the winner's curse under the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329339