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Social Preferences in Childhood and Adolescence: A Large-Scale Experiment
Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557230
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The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Martinsson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369116
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Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership: A Field Experiment in Rural China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070428
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Chronic and Transient Poverty: Measurement and Estimation, with Evidence from China
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim; Giles, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763836
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Income Inequality During China's Economic Transition
Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John; Wang, Sangui - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2005
This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three … series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of … summarizing several “first-order” empirical patterns concerning the trajectory of inequality through the reform period. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005827274