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What is inequality in health? Are economists' standard tools for measuring income inequality relevant or useful for measuring it? Does income protect health and does income inequality endanger it? I discuss two different concepts of health inequality and relate each of them to the literature on...
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Algorithms (in some form) are already widely used in the criminal justice system. We draw lessons from this experience …
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We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment to identify parents' preferences for investing in their children. The experiment exogenously varied the short-run returns to educational investments to identify how much parents care about maximizing total household earnings, minimizing cross-sibling...
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effect is driven by comparisons with higher-paid peers--suggesting concerns about fairness. Separations appear fairly …
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high percentage of respondents dislike all annuities. Demographic factors are not predictive of which individuals dislike …'s perception of product fairness. We discuss implications of our findings for financial planners hoping to help their customers …
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In settings with uncertainty, tension exists between ex ante and ex post notions of fairness (e.g., equal opportunity … findings suggest that the most common attitude toward fairness involves a time-consistent preference for applying naive …
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We study how reelection concerns affect reciprocity by elected leaders to the voters who elected them. If showing kindness to past voters reduces the chances of reelection, will an elected leader reduce or eliminate such intrinsic reciprocity? We present a signalling model of candidate behavior,...
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redistribution. We study the dynamic evolution of different economies in which redistributive policies, perceptions of fairness …, inequality and growth are jointly determined. We show how including fairness explains various observed correlations between … inequality, redistribution and growth. We also show how different beliefs about fairness can keep two otherwise identical …
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We present a dictator game experiment where the recipients are local charities that serve the poor. Donors consist of approximately 1000 participants from a nationally representative respondent panel that is maintained by a private survey research firm, Knowledge Networks. We randomly manipulate...
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arguments may be perceived as being used for different reasons, for example, out of fairness considerations or in order to … facilitate negotiations. Consistent with experimental and behavioral studies on fairness perceptions, we find that individuals …
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