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Who profits from windfalls in oil tax revenue? Inequality, protests, and the role of corruption
Alexeev, Michael; Zakharov, Nikita - 2022
We investigate the relationship between oil windfalls and income inequality using the subnational data of one of the resource-richest and most unequal countries in the world – Russia. While previous literature produced contradictory findings due to the use of an aggregate measure of oil rents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815319
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Who profits from windfalls in oil tax revenue? : inequality, protests, and the role of corruption
Alexeev, Michael V.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2022
We investigate the relationship between oil windfalls and income inequality using the subnational data of one of the resource-richest and most unequal countries in the world - Russia. While previous literature produced contradictory findings due to the use of an aggregate measure of oil rents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012819430
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Unethical Behavior and Group Identity in Contests
Benistant, Julien; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2019
Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary whether minimal group identity is induced or not, whether individuals have to report their own outcome or the outcome of their competitor, and whether pairs of competitors share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005821
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Unethical behavior and group identity in contests
Bénistant, Julien; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2019
Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary whether minimal group identity is induced or not, whether individuals have to report their own outcome or the outcome of their competitor, and whether pairs of competitors share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977521
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Voices of change in the Global South : understanding the dynamics of environmental protest
Strauch, Rebecca; Jansesberger, Viktoria; Koos, Sebastian; … - 2024
individuals may protest publicly to voice their concerns and demand action from authorities. In light of increasing climate change … mobilization must be explored: Have environmental issues become more prominent in protests? If so, which specific issues are … other forms of political protest, perhaps by attracting more participants or more frequently involving violent tactics? To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015050017
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Voices of change in the Global South: Understanding the dynamics of environmental protest
Strauch, Rebecca; Jansesberger, Viktoria; Koos, Sebastian; … - 2024
individuals may protest publicly to voice their concerns and demand action from authorities. In light of increasing climate change … mobilization must be explored: Have environmental issues become more prominent in protests? If so, which specific issues are … other forms of political protest, perhaps by attracting more participants or more frequently involving violent tactics? To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015050984
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Regional inequality and internal conflict
Lessmann, Christian - 2013
This paper studies the influence of interregional inequality within countries on internal con-flicts. Regional inequalities are measured by the population-weighted coefficient of variation of regional GDP per capita. As the main innovation, I use a panel data set of country-level re- gional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291665
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Equal bequests and parental altruism: Compatibility or orthogonality?
Stark, Oded - 1998
The large amount of equal division of bequests by parents who otherwise would have compensated the earning differences among their children is attributed to the cost associated with unequal bequests. This paper identifies a source of this cost and explains why equal bequests to children whose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291756
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Public projects benefiting some and harming others: Three experimental studies
Güth, Werner; Koukoumelis, Anastasios; Levati, M. Vittoria - 2012
Based on an axiomatically derived provision rule allowing community members to endogenously determine which, if any, public project should be provided, we perform experiments where (i) not all parties benefit from provision, and (ii) the projects' costs can be negative. In the tradition of legal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291800
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Community projects: An experimental analysis of a fair implementation process
Cicognani, Simona; D'Ambrosio, Anna; Güth, Werner; … - 2012
We define and experimentally test a public provision mechanism that meets three basic ethical requirements and allows community members to influence, via monetary bids, which of several projects is implemented. For each project, participants are assigned personal values, which can be positive or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291814