Similar Search Results

Political repression and child labor : theory and empirical evidence

Maffei, Sandro; Raabe, Nikolai; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2004

more lenient and child labor thus more prevalent than in countries enjoying political freedom. We test this implication and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261268

Coups, Regime Transition, and the Dynamics of Press Freedom

Bjørnskov, Christian - 2018

This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country …. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and … government. We estimate the dynamics of press freedom around both failed and successful coups and find that although press …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908729

Behavioural Responses to Unfair Institutions : Experimental Evidence on Rule Compliance, Norm Polarisation and Trust

Columbus, Simon; Kasper, Matthias; Feld, Lars P.; … - 2023

This study investigates the effects of unfair enforcement of institutional rules on public good contributions, personal and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce rule compliance compared to fair institutions. However,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345629

Complexity and Distributive Fairness Interact in Affecting Compliance Behavior

Bellemare, Charles - 2019

Filing income tax returns or insurance claims often requires that individuals comply with complex rules to meet their obligations. We present evidence from a laboratory tax experiment suggesting that the effects of complexity on compliance are intrinsically linked to distributive fairness. We...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860571

Incorporating Inequality Aversion in Health-Care Priority Setting

Costa-Font, Joan - 2019

Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes, it is far from straightforward how to elicit them and apply them in health-care decision making. This paper provides an overview of the literature on the measurement of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892077

Fair Long-Term Care Insurance

Leroux, M.‐L. - 2019

The study of optimal long-term care (LTC) social insurance is generally carried out under the utilitarian social criterion, which penalizes individuals who have a lower capacity to convert resources into well-being, such as dependent elderly individuals or prematurely dead individuals. This...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866386

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

Intragenerational Inequality Aversion and Intergenerational Equity

Cairns, Robert D.; Del Campo, Stellio; Martinet, Vincent - 2021

We study the interplay between intragenerational and intergenerational equity in an economy with two countries producing and consuming from national capital stocks. We characterize the sustainable development path that a social planner would implement to achieve intertemporal egalitarianism. If...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239334

In Pursuit of Fairness? Infrastructure Investment in Digital Markets

Kretschmer, Tobias - 2022

Recent and ongoing investments into telecommunications infrastructure have facilitated the repeated waves of digitization, both in personal and professional life. I address the question of which actors should contribute to investment costs into telecoms infrastructure and how. One widely...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243105

Fair Earnings Tax Reforms

Ooghe, Erwin; Schokkaert, Erik; Serruys, Hannes - 2023

We characterize a measure of social welfare for linear production economies in which individuals differ in productive skills and preferences. The key feature of our measure is that it aggregates fairness gaps, defined as the difference between the money-metric utility that the individual...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262033