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Genetic advantage and Equality of Opportunity in education : two definitions and an empirical application

Pereira, Rita Dias - 2021

The literature of Equality of Opportunity (EOp) has long acknowledged the existence of 'talents', 'innate ability' or 'genetic ability'. Nonetheless, attempts to explicitly incorporate a measure of innate ability in the quantification of EOp have been rare. On the other hand, the literature of...

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That's just : not fair ; gender differences in notions of justice

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015

of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance … experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same … differences in the notion of justice between men and women; women tend to be far more egalitarian. Using our preference …

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Informal sector in developed and less developed countries : a literature survey

Gërxhani, Klarita - 1999

The main goal of this study is two-fold: (1) to provide a general overview of thecontributions to the literature on the informal sector, with a special focus on the PublicChoice approach; and (2) to compare these contributions across two institutionallydifferent types of countries: developed and...

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Experimental public choice

Schram, Arthur - 2002

A review is given of the use of laboratory experiments in the Public Choice literature. A distinction is made in experiments on public goods, participation games, rent-seeking and lobbying, and spatial voting.

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The rationality behind immigration preferences

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - 2003

What drives stated preferences about the number of foreigners? Is it self-interest as stressed by the political economy of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with the preference for the aggregate population size? In...

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Fairness and reciprocity in the Hawk-Dove game

Neugebauer, Tibor; Poulsen, Anders; Schram, Arthur - 2002

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Negative reciprocity and the interaction of emotions and fairness norms

Reuben, Ernesto; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2005

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Dividing justly in bargaining problems with claims : normative judgments and actual negotiations

Gächter, Simon; Riedl, Arno - 2004

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Weighting the waiting : intertemporal social preferences

Rohde, Kirsten I. M.; Exel, Job van; Hulsen, Merel A. J. van - 2022

This paper studies intertemporal social preferences. We introduce intertemporal dictator and ultimatum games where players decide on the timing of monetary payoffs. The setting is twodimensional rather than one-dimensional, in the sense that inequalities can arise in the time as well as in the...

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The economics of transboundary river management

Ansink, Erik; Houba, Harold - 2014

We survey the economics of transboundary river water allocation, which emerged in the 1960s and has matured over the last decade due to increasing concerns over water scarcity and pollution. We outline the major approaches and pay specific attention to the strategic aspects of transboundary...

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