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Noblesse oblige?: determinants of survival in a life and death situation
Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2008
This paper explored the determinants of survival in a life and death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested to see whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...
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Surviving the Titanic disaster: economic, natural and social determinants
Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2009
The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third...
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Gini and Optimal Income Taxation by Rank
Simula, Laurent - 2020
trade-off between size and inequality using the Gini or related families of positional indices. The key idea is that when …
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Bunching and Rank-Dependent Optimal Income Taxation
Simula, Laurent - 2020
(1987) and weights agree with the Lorenz quasi-ordering. Gini, S-Gini, and a class putting more emphasis on inequality in … for the maximin, Gini, and "illfare-ranked single-series Ginis". We then turn to a discrete population setting, and …
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