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Climate activism favors pro-environmental consumption

Marini, Marco; Nocito, Samuel - 2025

We investigate whether climate activism favors pro-environmental consumption by examining the impact of Fridays for Future (FFF) protests in Italy on second-hand automobile sales in rallyaffected areas. Leveraging data on 10 million automobile transactions occurring before and after FFF...

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Poverty and individual responsibility

Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2020

a theory of justice accommodating norms of individual responsibility. I propose and axiomatically characterize a family …

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Language rights : a welfare-economics approach

Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2015

Distributions of language rights in multilingual settings are analyzed from a normative viewpoint in this chapter. If the cost structure of providing rights is concave in the number of beneficiaries, then a critical-mass criterion for the determination of an optimal rights structure results. It...

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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty

Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 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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(In-)equality of opportunity, fairness, and distributional preferences

Fehr, Dietmar; Müller, Daniel; Preuß, Marcel - 2022

This paper examines how perceived importance of family background affect distributional pref-erences using two large-scale survey experiments. In the first experiment, we randomly inform respondents about the relationship between parental income and economic success later in life, which renders...

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Inequality of opportunity and income redistribution

Preuß, Marcel; Reyes, Germán; Somerville, Jason; Wu, Joyce - 2023

We examine how people redistribute income when there is uncertainty about the role luck plays in determining opportunities and outcomes. We elicit redistribution decisions from a U.S.-representative sample who observe worker outcomes and whether luck magnified workers' effort ("lucky...

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Nudging when the descriptive norm is low : evidence from a carbon offsetting field experiment

Carattini, Stefano; Blasch, Julia - 2020

Nudges and behavioral interventions have become a popular tool to stimulate prosocial behavior. Little is known, however, on how to design effective social interventions in contexts in which the descriptive norm is low, i.e. when a desirable behavior is only practiced by a minority within the...

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Fighting climate change : the role of norms, preferences, and moral values

Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Chopra, Felix - 2021

We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change – as measured through an incentivized donation decision – is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual...

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Globalization and social justice in OECD countries

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015

Social justice is a topic of importance to social scientists and also political decision makers. We examine the … relationship between globalization and social justice as measured by a new indicator for 31 OECD countries. The results show that … countries that experienced rapid globalization enjoy social justice. When the KOF index of globalization increases by one …

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The trade-off between intra- and intergenerational equity in climate policy

Kverndokk, Snorre; Nævdal, Eric; Nøstbakken, Linda - 2013

This paper focuses on two equity dimensions of climate policy, intra- and intergenerational equity, and analyzes the implications of equity preferences on climate policy, and on the production and consumption patterns in rich and poor countries. We develop a dynamic two-region model, in which...

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