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Language rights : a welfare-economics approach
Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2015
determination of an optimal rights structure results. It is further shown that an efficiency analysis based on a "naive" cost … endogeneity of preferences. The endogeneity of preferences in turn can make the cost-benefit analysis contradictory. In a welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309548
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Who is in favor of affirmative action? : representative evidence from an experiment and a survey
Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023
(e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444043
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On welfare frameworks and catastrophic climate risks
Millner, Antony - 2013
that the welfare functions traditionally used in climate economics are ill-equipped to deal with climate catastrophes in … which population size changes. Drawing on recent work in population ethics I propose an alternative welfare framework with … normatively desirable properties, which has the effect of dampening the contribution of catastrophes to welfare. …
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Contracts and Inequity aversion
Englmaier, Florian; Wambach, Achim - 2002
Using the concept of Inequity Aversion we derive in a Moral Hazard setting several results which differ from conventional contract theory. Our three key insights are: First, inequity aversion plays a crucial role in the design of optimal contracts. Second, there is a strong tendency towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514018
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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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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy
Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009
Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...
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Leveraging wage subsidies to facilitate fair wages and increase social welfare
Blumḳin, Tomer; Pinhas, Haim; Zultan, Ro'i - 2017 - This version: May 31, 2017
higher social welfare. A substantial empirical literature establishes that workers reciprocate gifts in the form of higher … hypotheses and confirms the behavioral and welfare implications. …
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The interactions of social norms about climate change : science, institutions and economics
Cabrales, Antonio; García, Manu; Ramos Muñoz, David; … - 2022
We study the evolution of interest about climate change between different actors of the population, and how the interest of those actors affect one another. We first document the evolution individually, and then provide a model of cross influences between them, that we then estimate with a VAR....
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Justice under uncertainty
Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - 2013
An important element for the public support of policies is their perceived justice. At the same time most policy … their own risk preferences. The observed allocations are consistent with four different views of justice under uncertainty. …
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"It's not about the money. It's about sending a message!" : unpacking the components of revenge
Molńar, András; Chaudhry, Shereen J.; Loewenstein, … - 2020
We examine whether belief-based preferences - caring about what transgressors believe - play a crucial role in punishment decisions: Do punishers want to make sure that transgressors understand why they are being punished, and is this desire to affect beliefs often prioritized over distributive...
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