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conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We …. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from deontological to strongly consequentialist; the median respondent would support …
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public sector in most EU countries, the paper looks for policy reforms that can improve work incentives, and hence enhance … productive efficiency, in the public sector. We focus on reforms aiming to establish parity between work conditions in the public …
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We present an experimental study on how people take risk on behalf of others. We use three different elicitation methods, and study how each subject makes decisions both on behalf of own money and on behalf of another individual’s money. We find a weak tendency of lower risk-taking with...
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through which mobility expectations affect redistributive preferences. We address this by including an interaction between … POUM-effect that is conditional on political preferences. Only for right-wing individuals expected upward income mobility …
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the marriage, in the case where preferences of partners are unknown, will be accepted. In this sense consumption is …
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Tempelhof indicates that adaptive preferences may be important. …
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The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens' preferences for income redistribution. They are …
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literature on the enduring effects of communist systems on economic outcomes, political preferences, cultural traits, and gender …
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Patience and risk-taking – two cultural traits that steer intertemporal decision-making – are fundamental to human capital investment decisions. To understand how they contribute to international differences in student achievement, we combine PISA tests with the Global Preference Survey. We...
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Price surges often generate social disapproval and requests for regulation and price controls, but these interventions may cause inefficiencies and shortages. To study how individuals perceive and reason about sudden price increases for different products under different policy regimes, we...
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