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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 in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses
Carlsson, Fredrik; He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses' relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on inter-temporal choice), we let each spouse first make individual decisions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466474
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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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Positional Concerns through the Life Cycle: Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data and Survey Experiments
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper uses both subjective well-being and survey experimental data to analyze how people's positional concerns regarding income and goods vary with age. The subjective well-being approach is mainly based on German panel data for the period 1984-2009 (German Socio-Economic Panel), while the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646308
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The Effect of Religiosity and Religious Festivals on Positional Concerns: An Experimental Investigation of Ramadan
Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Martinsson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper examines the effect of religion on positional concerns using survey experiments. We focus on two of the … dimensions of religion – degree of religiosity and religious festivals. By conducting the experiments during both the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369106
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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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Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey experiment. On average, we found positional concerns neither in income per se nor in income from aid projects among the farmers. These results support the claim that positional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976879
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Inequality and Growth in Rural China: Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?
Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household … inequality is negatively related to subsequent household income growth. We are able to address a number of econometric issues … suggest that village inequality has an external adverse impact on household-level income trajectories. However, once we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761996
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Inequality and Growth in Rural China: Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?
Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006
We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household … inequality is negatively related to subsequent household income growth. We are able to address a number of econometric issues … suggest that village inequality has an external adverse impact on household-level income trajectories. However, once we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704720