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This paper provides axiomatic descriptions of social welfare relations, defined on infinite streams of utility, that are consistent with the utilitarian criterion on subsets where maximizing aggregate utility has a clear interpretation: the streams, or their differences, are summable. Besides...
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This paper presents an infinite-horizon version of intergenerational utilitarianism. By studying discounted utilitarianism as the discount factor tends to one, we obtain a welfare criterion --- limit-discounted utilitarianism (LDU) --- that is analytically tractable, respects the Pareto order,...
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It is a well known fact that on average, women in all countries earn less than men. Although less pronounced among OECD countries, the fact remains that the gender gap in earnings still persists to a significant degree. Less well known is that the rate of return (ROR) to university education is...
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The impact of compulsory schooling laws as well as the abolition of early selection by ability remain important issues in the educational debate. These issues were the focus of a major education reform in Sweden which was implemented in the 60s. The reform was preceded by a ``social experiment''...
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The motivations underlying the pursuit of college prestige in Japan presumes a labor market that rewards workers according to the quality of the college that they attended. Yet, studies that examine the relationship between college quality and earnings in Japan remain few and riddled with...
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We estimate the income-related inequality in Sweden with respect to life-years and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs … and quality-adjusted survival in different income groups. For both life-years and QALYs we discover inequalities in health … favouring the higher income groups. For men (women) in the youngest age-group (20-29 years) the number of QALYs is 43.7 (45 …
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This paper compares cooperation among Columbian and Swedish children aged 9-12. We illustrate the dynamics of the … prisoner’s dilemma in a new task that is easily understood by children and performed during a physical education class. We find … some evidence that children cooperate more in Sweden than in Colombia. Girls in Colombia are less cooperative than boys …
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We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden …
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adults. We test if reciprocal behavior exists already among children 3-8 years old. Three simple anonymous allocation games … are conducted with 242 children. In a first stage, half of the children decide whether to give a bag of raisin to another … second stage the roles are reversed between the two children to test for reciprocal behavior. We find reciprocal behavior in …
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