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Using an online experiment with two distinct dishonesty games, we analyze how dishonesty in men and women is influenced by either thinking or learning about the dishonesty of others in a related, but different situation. Thinking is induced by eliciting a belief about others’ dishonesty in a...
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how a novel criterion, Strongly Anonymous Utilitarianism, can be characterized by combining Strong Anonymity with other …, separability, and population ethics. We relate it to other strongly anonymous utilitarian criteria and demonstrate its …
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opportunities and outcomes. We elicit redistribution decisions from a U.S.-representative sample who observe worker outcomes and … lucky opportunities. Our findings have implications for models that seek to understand and predict redistribution attitudes …, and help to explain the gap between lab evidence on support for redistribution and U.S. inequality trends …
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In this paper, we propose a novel index for measuring intra-generational redistribution in pay-as-you-go pension …-generational redistribution isolated from possible inter-generational redistribution. We use contribution records of approx. 100,000 German … individuals, who progressed into retirement in 2007-2015, to measure the level of intra-generational redistribution in the German …
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We show how normative standpoints determine optimal taxation of wealth. Since wealth is not equal to capital, we find very different welfare implications of land rent-, bequest- and capital taxation. It is mainly land rents that should be taxed. We develop an overlapping generations model with...
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Electricity transmission redistributes environmental impacts across space. We exploit episodes of high electricity transmission system congestion to explore changes in ambient concentrations of air pollutants in the eastern United States. Reducing electricity system congestion decreases ozone...
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"blunt instrument" for redistribution. To do so we build a model in which workers are heterogeneous in ability, and the … government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods. We show that the MW institution is … politically viable only when there is a limited degree of in-kind redistribution. To examine the empirical relevance of our …
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Income equality and trust seem to go along with several other ingredients of social capital as determinants of economic growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank and by The Standardized World Income Inequality...
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The goal of this paper is to study the effects of introducing income redistribution at the municipal level, with the … decentralizing income redistribution as it may lead to consistent tax manipulation and large distortions in fiscal policy …
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The social cost of carbon is the central economic measure for aggregate climate change damages and functions as a metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of...
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