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The scope of cooperation : values and incentives
Tabellini, Guido Enrico (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641773
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309548
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864650
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014251993
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411680
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A different look at Lenin's legacy : trust, risk, fairness and cooperativeness in the two Germanies
Heineck, Guido; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2010
What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of convergence with regard to individuals' trust and risk, as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697515
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012166019
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Fighting climate change : the role of norms, preferences, and moral values
Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Anand … - 2021
well as universal moral values positively predict climate preferences. Moreover, we document systematic misperceptions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597131
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Moral judgments in social dilemmas : how bad is free riding?
Cubitt, Robin P.; Drouvelis, Michalis; Gaechter, Simon; … - 2010
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 philosophy and psychology we provide an analysis of the morality of free … riding. We use experimental survey methods to investigate people's moral judgments empirically. We vary others' contributions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008699694
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Does market interaction erode moral values?
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Özdemir, Yagiz - 2020
interaction, as a side effect, erodes moral values. An encompassing understanding of the virtues and vices of markets, including … their possible impact on moral values, is necessary to make informed decisions on the spheres in society where the … erodes moral values." Although we replicate their main treatment effect, we show that additional treatments are necessary to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270575