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What Price Fairness? A Bargaining Study
Zwick, Rami; Chen, Xiao-Ping - EconWPA - 1999
' concern for fairness, and the tradeoff the disadvantaged player makes between pursuing a fair outcome from a disadvantaged … weak players persist in seeking "fairness" is also a function of how much it (potentially) costs them to do so. Students …-cost bargainers to demand fairness and to persist in their demands was a function of how much it cost them to do so, and the degree to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556668
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Time allocation within the family: welfare implications of life in a couple
Couprie, Helene - EconWPA - 2003
This paper analyzes the household decision-making process leading to the allocation of time and consumption in the family. We estimate, on the British Household Panel Survey, a collective model of demand for leisure generalized to the production of a household public good. For the first time in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125796
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Consumption Inequality and Intra-Household Allocations
Lise, Jeremy; Seitz, Shannon - EconWPA - 2005
The consumption literature uses adult equivalence scales to measure individual level inequality. This practice imposes the assumption that there is no within household inequality. In this paper, we show that ignoring consumption inequality within households produces misleading estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556802
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Pain
Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2001
Painkilling drugs produce a good called relief which reduces the fixed level of bad (pain) the individual is endowed with. These drugs have the side-effect of reducing the utility the individual gets from consuming goods. This means that the shadow price of relief counts not only the cost of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135054
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Income Contributions of Child Work in Rural Ethiopia
Cockburn, John - EconWPA - 2004
The income contribution of child work is undoubtedly a key factor influencing child work and schooling decisions. Yet, few studies have attempted to directly measure this contribution. This is particularly the case for work performed on the household farm, as is the case for the vast majority of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407639
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The Valuation of Household Production: How Different are the Opportunity Cost and Market Price Valuation Methods?
Harvey S. James Jr. - EconWPA - 1996
According to New Home Economics, valuations of household production based on opportunity cost and market price methods should produce similar estimates. Data from the National Survey of Family and Households are used to assess the extent to which the opportunity cost and market price methods of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413274
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Income Contributions of Child Work in Rural Ethiopia
Cockburn, John - EconWPA - 2004
The income contribution of child work is undoubtedly a key factor influencing child work and schooling decisions. Yet, few studies have attempted to directly measure this contribution. This is particularly the case for work performed on the household farm, as is the case for the vast majority of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556106
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Endogenous Leadership in Teams
Biel, Pedro Rey; Huck, Steffen - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper we study the mechanics of ``leading by example'' in teams. Leadership is beneficial for the entire team when agents are conformists, i.e., dislike effort differentials. We also show how leadership can arise endogenously and discuss what type of leader benefits a team most.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135020
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Asynchronous Evolution of Pairs - How spatial evolution leads to inequality
Kirchkamp, Oliver - EconWPA - 1995
We present a simple model of spatial evolution that avoids several problems that arise with more complex networks of players. We consider a world where pairs of players are matched forever. These players learn from the whole population but they are more likely to learn to strategies used by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118522
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Low Information Games - Experimental Evidence on Learning in Ultimatum Bargaining
Slembeck, Tilman - EconWPA - 1999
lack structural information, which contrasts with common notions of fairness or "manners" in ultimatum bargaining (Camerer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125583