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Don’t tax me? : Determinants of individual attitudes toward progressive taxation
Heinemann, Friedrich; Hennighausen, Tanja - 2010
use of the representative German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) that offers data on the individual attitudes toward …, fairness considerations, economic beliefs and several other individual factors drive individual preferences for tax rate … in attitudes toward progressive taxation. Rather, we show that the choice of the favoured tax rate is also driven by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951035
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Alphabetized Co-Authorship in Economics Reconsidered
Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2021
In this article, we revisit the analysis of Laband and Tollison (2006) who documented that articles with two authors in alphabetical order are cited much more often than non-alphabetized papers with two authors in the American Economic Review and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216255
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Meta-Analysis of Inequality Aversion Estimates
Nunnari, Salvatore; Pozzi, Massimiliano - 2022
We conduct an interdisciplinary meta-analysis to aggregate the knowledge from empirical estimates of inequality aversion reported from 1999 to 2022. In particular, we examine 85 estimates of disadvantageous inequality aversion (or envy) and advantageous inequality aversion (or guilt) from 26...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080048
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On the arbitrariness of consumption
Whalley, John; Zhang, Shunming - 2009
We discuss a simple model of choices of joint consumption by a working couple who place maintenance of their marriage (relationship) above all else. Any proposal made by one partner seeking to provide maximal utility to the other so as to preserve the marriage, in the case where preferences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264574
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Bread and Bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431284
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Individual determinants of social fairness assessments : the case of Germany
Bischoff, Ivo (contributor);  … - 2008
In this contribution we study the determinants of how individuals assess the social fairness of a given income …: first fairness preferences, second beliefs on the sources of economic success and the functioning of democracy and third … indicate that self-interest, beliefs and fairness preferences jointly shape fairness assessments. In addition, a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751302
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Preferences for redistribution and pensions: What can we learn from experiments?
Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Jan; Riedl, Arno - 2010
they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness? How does …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270867
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Implications of inequality aversion for international climate policy
Vogt, Carla; Sturm, Bodo - 2011
In this paper, we extend the Fehr and Schmidt model of inequality aversion to a situation where the players differ with respect to their benefits and costs from contributions to a non-linear public good. A necessary condition for contributing to the public good is that the players’ benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009244226
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Negotiating weights for burden sharing rules among heterogeneous parties : empirical evidence from a survey among delegates in international climate negotiations
Kesternich, Martin; Löschel, Andreas; Ziegler, Andreas - 2014
Given the vital and controversial debate on fairness concerns in international climate negotiations, the acceptance of … international climate negotiations to address the question whether negotiating weights for different fairness concepts may enlarge … the bargaining space among heterogeneous agents and overcome the currently dominating self-interested use of fairness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357594
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Cooperation in international environmental negotiations due to a preference for equity
Lange, Andreas; Vogt, Carla - 2001
This paper demonstrates that cooperation in international environmental negotiations can be explained by preferences for equity. Within a N-country prisoner's dilemma in which agents can either cooperate or defect, in addition to the standard non-cooperative equilibrium, cooperation of a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445929