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This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals' education and labor market success. We leverage unique … improvements in both their high school GPA and diploma probability. Subsequently, exam luck generates substantial and persistent … wage differentials across otherwise identical individuals. These luck-induced wage effects are of a similar magnitude as …
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those using a sample of the top 0.1 percent. The findings suggest the powerful role of luck within the extremes of the …
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Does being lucky (or unlucky) affect honest decision-making? We examine (1) whether luck-based income strengthens or … between luck and honesty; and (3) whether accumulated luck affects honesty. To this end, we conducted a lab experiment where … participants self-report a dice roll outcome, which is associated with effort-based income, after having received luck-based income …
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We examine how people redistribute income when there is uncertainty about the role luck plays in determining … whether luck magnified workers' effort ("lucky opportunities") or determined workers' income directly ("lucky outcomes"). We … find that participants redistribute less and are less reactive to changes in the importance of luck in environments with …
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Actively managed Swedish equity mutual funds outperform the market in 1993‐2001 but have negative gross and net excess returns of ‐0.18 and ‐1.47 per cent per year in 2002‐2013. Across funds, there is no correlation between activism and return in the later period. Returns show little or...
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critiques to utilitarianism by satisfying the following three fairness axioms: possibility of trade-offs sets a limit to the …
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This paper studies the design of the optimal linear taxation of bequests when individuals differ in wage as well as in their risks of both mortality and old-age dependence. We assume that the government cannot distinguish between bequests motives, that is whether bequests resulted from...
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how a novel criterion, Strongly Anonymous Utilitarianism, can be characterized by combining Strong Anonymity with other …
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with the postulated social welfare criterion. Utilitarianism redistributes only between individuals with unequal fecundity … information and in order to solve for the incentive problem, utilitarianism recommends also to either tax or subsidize ART …
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This paper studies the impact of a key feature of competitive markets on moral behavior: the possibility that a competitor will step in and conclude the deal if a conscientious market actor forgoes a profitable business opportunity for ethical reasons. We study experimentally whether people...
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