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of individuals taking into consideration inequality in life expectancy, temporal variability of income, and interactions …
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usefulness of the approach in the context of field experiments on gift exchange. Our results suggest that a BS design requires …
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The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this … the Health and Re- tirement Study and biomarker measures collected in 2006 and 2008. We use a variety of econometric … evidence that business closures lead to worse health outcomes. We also find no evidence that biomarker health measures predict …
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and health outcomes. We combine three surveys (SHARE, HRS and ELSA) that include nationally representative samples of … an instrument for the effect of education on health. Using instrumental variables Probit models (IV-Probit), we find … causal evidence that more years of education lead to better health for a limited number of health markers. We find lower …
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We present an experimental study to learn about behavior in bargaining situations under large risks. In order to implement realistic risks involved in the field, we calibrate the experimental parameters from an environment involving substantial variation in profits, the motion picture industry....
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group of agents. Fairness requires that each agent weakly prefers his consumption bundle to any other agent’s bundle. Under … fairness, efficiency is equivalent to budget-balance (all the available money is allocated among the agents). Budget …-balance and fairness in general are incompatible with non-manipulability (Green and Laffont, 1979). We propose a new notion of the …
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In the past quarter century, there has been a dramatic shift of focus in social choice theory, with structured sets of alternatives and restricted domains of the sort encountered in economic problems coming to the fore. This article provides an overview of some of the recent contributions to...
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partial, is possible. We search for incentive-constrained efficient allocation rules that display fairness properties …
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partial, is possible. We search for incentive-constrained efficient allocation rules that display fairness properties …
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In the past quarter century, there has been a dramatic shift of focus in social choice theory, with structured sets of alternatives and restricted domains of the sort encountered in economic problems coming to the fore. This article provides an overview of some of the recent contributions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008617079