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Moral Judgments in Social Dilemmas : How Bad is Free Riding?

Cubitt, Robin P.; Drouvelis, Michalis; Gaechter, Simon; … - 2021

In the last thirty years, economists and other social scientists have investigated people’s normative views on distributive justice. Here we study people’s normative views in social dilemmas, which underlie many situations of economic and social significance. Using insights from moral...

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Measuring Unfair Inequality : Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty

Hufe, Paul - 2018

Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...

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The Market for Conservation and Other Hostages

Harstad, Bård - 2021

the conservation value is low, the consumption value high, and the buyer’s protection cost large. The theory explains why …

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What's the Monetary Value of Distributive Justice?

Corneo, Giacomo; Fong, Christina M. - 2021

This paper proposes a model that can be implemented to estimate the willingness to pay for distributive justice. A formula is derived that allows one to recover the willingness to pay for distributive justice from the estimated coefficients of a probit regression and fiscal data. Using this...

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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution

Dahlberg, Matz - 2011

to reduced support for redistribution among natives. This paper exploits a nationwide program placing refugees in … increased immigrant shares on preferences for redistribution. The results show that a larger immigrant population leads to less … support for redistribution in the form of preferred social benefit levels. This reduction in support is especially pronounced …

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Experienced Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution

Roth, Christopher - 2017

We examine whether individuals' experienced levels of income inequality affect their preferences for redistribution. We … their lives are less in favor of redistribution, after controlling for income, demographics, unemployment experiences and … inequality and reduce their demand for redistribution …

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Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking

Rothschild, Casey - 2014

We develop a framework for optimal taxation when agents can earn their income both in traditional activities, where private and social products coincide, and in rent-seeking activities, where private returns exceed social returns either because they involve the capture of pre-existing rents or...

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The Pareto-Frontier in a Simple Mirrleesian Model of Income Taxation

Bierbrauer, Felix J. - 2013

We characterize the Pareto-frontier in a simple Mirrleesian model of income taxation. We show how the second-best frontier which incorporates incentive constraints due to private information on productive abilities relates to the first-best frontier which takes only resource constraints into...

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A Comparison of Optimal Tax Policies When Compensation or Responsibility Matter

Jacquet, Laurence - 2010

This paper examines optimal redistribution in a model with high- and low-skilled individuals with heterogeneous tastes …

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Evaluating Real World Income Distributions Behind the Veil of Ignorance - How Risk Averse Do You Have to Be to Prefer Europe Over the US?

Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2013

The paper uses a veil of ignorance approach and income distribution data of developed countries to arrive at inequality corrected income rankings. While a risk neutral individual (based on year 2000 data) would have preferred to be born into the US rather than any European country in our sample...

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