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and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually â€¦
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altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one â€¦
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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...
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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...
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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...
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This paper examines the effect of religion on positional concerns using survey experiments. We focus on two of the â€¦ dimensions of religion – degree of religiosity and religious festivals. By conducting the experiments during both the most â€¦
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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...
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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...
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We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household â€¦ inequality is negatively related to subsequent household income growth. We are able to address a number of econometric issues â€¦ suggest that village inequality has an external adverse impact on household-level income trajectories. However, once we â€¦
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families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are â€¦ less likely to work as migrants when a parent is ill. Poor elder parent health has less impact on the probability of â€¦
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