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A century of regional inequalities in Brazil

Magalhães, João Carlos Ramos; Alves, Pedro Jorge Holanda - 2022

This work calculates coefficients of spatial inequalities of wealth amongst Brazilian municipalities, for each year for the period from 1920 to 2016, states of the federation, from 1939 to 2017, and amongst municipalities from each of the five Brazilians' macro-regions, from 1920 to 2016. The...

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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020

Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to diff erent quality schools because their parents di ffer in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that children are signi ficantly less likely to enter the...

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Heterogeneous responses to school track choice : evidence from the repeal of binding track recommendations

Bach, Maximilian - 2021

This paper studies heterogeneity in schooling decisions by socio-economic status (SES) in response to a repeal of achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The main contribution is to show that while previously...

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Fairness in markets and market experiments

Engelmann, Dirk; Friedrichsen, Jana; Kübler, Dorothea - 2018

and contested issue. We investigate how fairness in a laboratory experiment framed explicitly as a market exchange relates … the experiment. These results support the notion that fairness preferences as assessed in laboratory experiments capture …

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Suspicious success : cheating, inequality acceptance, and political preferences

Klimm, Felix - 2018

Supporters of left-wing parties typically place more emphasis on redistributive policies than right-wing voters. I investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is amplified by suspicious success - achievements that may arise from cheating. Using a laboratory experiment, I...

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Are the upwardly mobile more left-wing?

Clark, Andrew E.; Cotofan, Maria - 2023

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When transaction-level wage transparency can increase consumer preference

Stich, Lucas; Ungemach, Christoph; Fuchs, Christoph; … - 2022

Firms are usually reluctant to disclose information about the production costs of their goods and services; however, some firms have recently started to disclose cost information to consumers. This research examines the consequences of disclosing transaction-level wage information on consumer...

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Self-serving bias in redistribution choices : accounting for beliefs and norms

Amasino, Dianna; Pace, Davide Domenico; Weele, Joël J. … - 2023

underlying inequality, differing fairness views, and differing perceptions of social norms. In this study, we directly measure … report different fairness views and beliefs about task performance, but not different beliefs about social norms. Further …, only fairness views play a significant mediating role between status and allocation differences, suggesting this is the …

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Does unfairness hurt women? : the effects of losing unfair competitions

Piasenti, Stefano; Valente, Marica; Veldhuizen, Roel van; … - 2023

How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a...

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Ruled by robots : preference for algorithmic decision makers and perceptions of their choices

Chugunova, Marina; Luhan, Wolfgang J. - 2023

decisions are mainly driven by own material interests and fairness ideals. For the latter, players display remarkable … negatively to redistribution decisions that do not fit any fairness ideals. Our results suggest that even in the realm of moral …

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