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Sharing One's Fortune? An Experimental Study on Earned Income and Giving

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In this paper we investigate the relationship between earnings and charitable giving. We set up a real effort experiment, in which subjects enter data in four one-hour occasions and are paid a piece rate. From the second occasion onwards, we randomly assign half of the subjects to a treatment...

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Gender Differences and Dynamics in Competition: The Role of Luck

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

observe striking differences in how men and women respond to good and bad luck in a competitive environment. Following a loss …, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment. These findings …

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Liberty and the Post-Utilitarian Society

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

people are plagued by irrational biases and inconsistencies. The author elucidates how these developments have led to a post-utilitarianism …

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Ethical and Economic Perspectives on Global Health Interventions

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Pogge, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

health. To support a justice argument for such modification, we show how the current global economic order may contribute to …

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Linking Individuals and Societies

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science − population and variable. Starting with the simplest...

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A New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

describing five sociobehavioral processes - comparison (including justice and self-esteem), status, power, identity, and …

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Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity: The Case of Italy

Checchi, Daniele; Peragine, Vitorocco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In this paper we provide a new methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to decompose overall inequality in an "ethically offensive" and an "ethically acceptable" part. Moreover, we provide some empirical applications of these new evaluation tools: in the first exercise, we compare the...

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Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies – justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members’ gains, effects of own … killed only in a justice-nonmaterialistic society, and from the noblest of motives – to achieve equal gains for members. …

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The Terms and Relations of Comparison, Referential, and Relative Processes

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper develops the mathematical foundations of comparison, referential, and relative (CRR) processes. The key ingredients are: (1) three kinds of terms; and (2) two kinds of relations. Combining the three terms - absolute amount, relative amount, and relative rank - with the two kinds of...

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