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remedies to correct these distortions: (i) co-investment options purchased ex-ante by entrants from incumbents, and (ii) risk … premia paid ex-post by entrants. We show that co-investment options cannot fully reestablish total coverage, while premia can …
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' preferences and the size of government. We devise a series of representative survey experiments in Germany that randomly provide … specific education reforms. Preferences on spending across education levels are also malleable to information. …
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conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from deontological to strongly consequentialist; the median respondent would support …
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We consider the evolution of preferences when trade occurs between two countries. We show that if one country is much … larger than the other, its preferences can eventually take over the preferences of the second country. This result may … agreements. We also show that when the sensitivity of preferences to the relative price is high, the distribution of preferences …
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phenomenon across the globe. Upward-biased perceptions are associated with lower preferences for redistribution and have direct … redistribution preferences, is independent of socio-demographic characteristics, robust to measurement errors in social surveys, and … occurs similary when we change the underlying micro data or examine party preferences. …
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This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular … combination of traits drawn at random from those represented in the previous generation. Preferences may be altruistic or non … preferences, and the latter by selecting cooperation-inducing rules. …
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Price surges often generate social disapproval and requests for regulation and price controls, but these interventions may cause inefficiencies and shortages. To study how individuals perceive and reason about sudden price increases for different products under different policy regimes, we...
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We present an experimental study on how people take risk on behalf of others. We use three different elicitation methods, and study how each subject makes decisions both on behalf of own money and on behalf of another individual’s money. We find a weak tendency of lower risk-taking with...
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Patience and risk-taking - two cultural traits that steer intertemporal decision-making - are fundamental to human capital investment decisions. To understand how they contribute to international differences in student achievement, we combine PISA tests with the Global Preference Survey. We find...
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through which mobility expectations affect redistributive preferences. We address this by including an interaction between … POUM-effect that is conditional on political preferences. Only for right-wing individuals expected upward income mobility …
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