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Strong, bold, and kind : self-control and cooperation in social dilemmas

Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R. - 2013

We develop a model that relates self-control and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in social dilemmas. As predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels of cooperation. This means that there is...

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Probability adjusted rank-discounted utilitarianism

Asheim, Geir B.; Zuber, Stéphane - 2014

We propose and axiomatize probability adjusted rank-discounted critical-level generalized utilitarianism (PARDCLU). We thus generalize rank-discounted utilitarianism (RDU) (proposed by Zuber and Asheim, 2012) to variable population and risky situations and thereby take important steps towards...

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Thanks but no thanks : a new policy to reduce land conflict

Dufwenberg, Martin; Köhlin, Gunnar; Martinsson, Peter; … - 2014

Land conflicts in developing countries are costly. An important policy goal is to create respect for borders. This often involves mandatory, expensive interventions. We propose a new policy design, which in theory promotes neighborly relations at low cost. A salient feature is the option to...

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Evaluating climate policies by the Pareto principle : efficiency when future identities are unobservable

Asheim, Geir B.; Kamaga, Kohei; Zuber, Stéphane - 2022

Climate change is an externality since those who emit greenhouse gases do not pay the long-term negative consequences of their emissions. In view of the resulting inefficiency, it has been claimed that climate policies can be evaluated by the Pareto principle. However, climate policies lead to...

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Infinite population utilitarian criteria

Asheim, Geir B.; Kamaga, Kohei; Zuber, Stéphane - 2022

We examine utilitarian criteria for evaluating profiles of wellbeing among infinitely many individuals. Motivated by the non-existence of a natural 1-to-1 correspondence between people when alternatives have different population structures, with a different number of people in each generation,...

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Escaping the repugnant conclusion : rank-discounted utilitarianism with variable population

Asheim, Geir B.; Zuber, Stéphane - 2012

Evaluation of climate policies and other issues requires a variable population setting where population is endogenously determined. We propose and axiomatize the rank-discounted critical-level utilitarian social welfare order. It is shown to fill out the space between critical-level...

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Premature deaths, accidental bequests and fairness

Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - 2017

While little agreement exists regarding the taxation of bequests in general, there is a widely held view that accidental bequests should be subject to a confiscatory tax. We propose to reexamine the optimal taxation of accidental bequests in an economy where individuals care about what they...

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Lab experiments are a major source of knowledge in the social sciences

Falk, Armin; Heckman, James J. - 2009

Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences …. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences …, although during the last two decades, the use of lab experiments has accelerated. Nonetheless, there remains considerable …

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Justifying social discounting : the rank-discounted utilitarian approach

Zuber, Stéphane; Asheim, Geir B. - 2010

intergenerational inequality aversion. We show that more inequality averse ERDU societies have higher social discount rates when future …

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A complete and strongly anonymous leximin relation on infinite streams

Asheim, Geir B.; Zuber, Stéphane - 2011

Various extensions of the leximin order to the infinite dimensional setting have been suggested. They relax completeness and strong anonymity. Instead, by removing sensitivity to generations at infinite rank this paper defines a complete and strongly anonymous leximin relation on infinite...

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