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Social value orientation as a moral intuition: Decision-making in the dictator game
Cornelissen, Gert; Dewitte, Siegfried; Warlop, Luk - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2007
We studied the decision making process in the Dictator Game and showed that decisions are the result of a two …-step process. In a first step, decision makers generate an automatic, intuitive proposal. Given sufficient motivation and cognitive … donation size in step 2. Finally, we show that increasing interpersonal closeness can promote pro-social decision-making. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572592
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A positive theory of geographic mobility and social insurance
Hassler, John; Mora, José V. Rodríguez; Storesletten, … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2001
This paper presents a tractable dynamic general equilibrium model that can explain cross-country empirical regularities in geographical mobility, unemployment and labor market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance (UI), taking the dynamic distortionary effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005827462
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Government spending and re-election: Quasi-experimental evidence from Brazilian municipalities
Litschig, Stephan; Morrison, Kevin - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010
Does additional government spending improve the electoral chances of incumbent political parties? This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence on this question. Our research design exploits discontinuities in federal funding to local governments in Brazil around several population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564762
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On the justice of voting systems
Apesteguia, Jose; Ballester, Miguel A.; Ferrer, Rosa - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006
What are the best voting systems in terms of utilitarianism? Or in terms of maximin, or maximax? We study these … questions for the case of three alternatives and a class of structurally equivalent voting rules. We show that plurality …, arguably the most widely used voting system, performs very poorly in terms of remarkable ideals of justice, such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771963
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Electoral platforms, implemented policies and abstention
Llavador, Humberto - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2001
Recent studies of American politics evidence that political polarization of both the electorate and the political elite have moved 'almost in tandem for the past half century' (McCarty et al., 2003, p.2), and that party polarization has steadily increased since the 1970s. On the other hand, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772049
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A characterization of sequential rationalizability
Apesteguia, Jose; Ballester, Miguel A. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008
sequentially rationalizable. Finally, we show that some prominent voting mechanisms are also sequentially rationalizable. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005707995
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The social value of health programs: Is age a relevant factor?
Rodríguez, Eva; Pinto, José Luis - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000
In cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) it is usually assumed that a QALY is of equal value to everybody, irrespective of the patient's age. However, it is possible that society assigns different social values to a QALY according to who gets it. In this paper we discuss the possibility of weighting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771929
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The significance of distributive effects in social assessment of health care
Rodríguez, Eva; Pinto, José Luis - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000
In this paper we address the importance of distributive effects in the social valuation of QALY's. We propose a social welfare function that generalises the functions traditionally used in the health economic literature. The novelty is that, depending on the individual health gains, our function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771942
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The social value of health programs: Is age a relevant factor?
Rodríguez, Eva; Pinto, José Luis - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000
In cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) it is usually assumed that a QALY is of equal value to everybody, irrespective of the patient's age. However, it is possible that society assigns different social values to a QALY according to who gets it. In this paper we discuss the possibility of weighting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772095
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The significance of distributive effects in social assessment of health care
Rodríguez, Eva; Pinto, José Luis - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000
In this paper we address the importance of distributive effects in the social valuation of QALY's. We propose a social welfare function that generalises the functions traditionally used in the health economic literature. The novelty is that, depending on the individual health gains, our function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005707972