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Fisman, Raymond; Kariv, Shachar; Markovits, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

This paper reports an experimental test of individual preferences for giving. We use graphical representations of modified Dictator Games that vary the price of giving. This generates a very rich data set well- suited to studying behavior at the level of the individual subject. We test the data...

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Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society

Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John - EconWPA - 2004

Using a South African data set, the paper poses six questions about the determinants of subjective well-being. Much of the paper is concerned with the role of relative concepts. We find that comparator income – measured as average income of others in the local residential cluster - enters the...

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Necessidade de uma economia solidária: a visão de Karl Polanyi sobre os mercados

Santos, António Bob - EconWPA - 2004

This paper aims to analyse the vision of Karl Polanyi about the creation of markets. The importance of markets in societies, social relations, and capitalism.

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Asset measurement in the costing of government services

EconWPA; Steering Committee for the Review of … - 2001

Differences in asset measurement techniques can have a major impact on reported capital costs. Their influence on total unit cost depends on the importance of capital costs as a proportion of total costs for the particular service area being studied. In the areas of corrective services, police...

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Exploring the Social and Economic Costs of Abuse in Later lIfe

Spencer, Charmaine - EconWPA - 2000

in health, community, and justice services, as well as private industry (banking, housing, insurance) and government …

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L’expert-comptable judiciaire : un pair de la cour ?

CHARRIER, Emmanuel - EconWPA - 2005

il doit apporter un éclairage strictement limité à sa technique afin que la décision de justice soit prise en toute … Justice. …

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Shared Legacies, Disparate Outcomes: Why American South Border Cities Turned the Tables on Crime and Their Mexican Sisters Did Not

Albuquerque, Pedro H. - EconWPA - 2005

The article evaluates crime trends in south border American and Mexican sister cities using panel data analysis. The region offers a unique assessment opportunity since cities are characterized by shared cultural and historical legacies, institutional heterogeneity, and disparate crime outcomes....

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A normative framework of justice in climate change

Grasso, Marco - EconWPA - 2004

attainable. That is the reason why justice plays a major role in favouring collective action against global warming. In this … article I spell out the dominant notions of justice and the consequent criteria of equity for the main domains of global … factor which takes into account all undeserved inequalities, as suggested by Rawls’ theory of justice. With regard to the …

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Insider Power, Wage Discrimination, and Fairness

Fehr, Ernst; Kirchsteiger, Georg - EconWPA - 2003

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SOCIETY, SCIENCE, AND ECONOMICS: THE DELICATE BALANCE BETWEEN IDEOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY AND THE CONCEPT OF FAIRNESS

Salvary, Stanley C. W. - EconWPA - 2004

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