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The Importance of Emotions for the Effectiveness of Social Punishment

Hopfensitz, Astrid; Reuben, Ernesto - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

This paper experimentally explores how the enforcement of cooperative behavior in a social dilemma is facilitated through institutional as well as emotional mechanisms. Recent studies emphasize the importance of negatively valued emotions, such as anger, which motivate individuals to punish free...

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Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a … method to decompose Income Satisfaction Inequality according to the contributions from variables such as income, education …

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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research

Praag, Bernard van - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. …

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Social Identity Strategies in Recent Economics

Davis, John B. - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

This paper reviews three distinct strategies in recent economics for using the concept of social identity in the explanation of individual behavior: Akerlof and Kranton’s neoclassical approach, Sen’s commitment approach, and Kirman et al.’s complexity approach. The primary focus is the...

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The Institutional Economics of Stakeholder Consultation; Reducing Implementations Costs through 'Matching Zones'

Butter, Frank A.G. den; Wolde, Sjoerd ten - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

This paper discusses various ways to organise these consultations, so that a compromise agreement is reached on the solution of the (re)distribution problem. These institutionalised structures of consultation are referred to as 'matching zones' here. Practical experiences, mainly from the...

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Social Comparison and Risky Choices

Linde, Jona; Sonnemans, Joep - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

This study attempts to combine two traditional fields in microeconomics: individual decision making under risk and decision making in an interpersonal context. The influence of social comparison on risky choices is explored in an experiment in which participants make a series of choices between...

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Dividing justly in Bargaining Problems with Claims

Gächter, Simon; Riedl, Arno - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

Theoretical research on claims problems has concentrated on normative properties and axiomatizations of solution concepts. We complement these analyses by empirical evidence on the predictability of three classical solution concepts in a bankruptcy problem. We examine both people's impartial...

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Deliberation, Information Aggregation and Collective Decision Making

Swank, Otto H.; Wrasai, Phongthorn - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

We study a model of collective decision making with endogenous information collection. Agents collect information about the consequences of a project, communicate, and then vote on the project. We examine under what conditions communication may increase the probability that good decisions are...

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Growth and Inequality: A Meta-Analysis

Dominicis, Laura de; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Florax, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …

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Who wants Safer Streets? Explaining Concern for Public Safety in Brazil

Pradhan, Menno; Ravallion, Martin - Tinbergen Institute - 2001

safety at given own-income. The own-income effect is nonlinear, such that inequality attenuates the aggregate concern for …

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