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We design a novel experiment to identify aversion to pure (univariate) health inequality separately from aversion to … income-related and income-caused health inequality. Participants allocate resources to determine health of individuals … preferences while accounting for noise. The median person has strong aversion to pure health inequality, challenging the health …
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conducted a real effort fairness experiment where people in two of the world's richest countries, Norway and Germany, interacted …
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associations with the allocations to estimate responsibility-sensitive weights that reflect inequality aversion and health … non-smokers, respectively. Inequality aversion lowers weights on females and non-smokers, who are health-advantaged, and …We estimate responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health that facilitate inequalityand inequity-sensitive policy …
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In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination … experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same … men and women in dictator experiments are explained by differences in their notion of justice and not by different levels …
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whether the wealth distribution choice exhibits equity or efficiency preferring tastes. We report experiments using a within …
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Meritocratic fairness justifies inequality when it stems from performance. Yet performance is influenced by one … generating performance inequality. In an incentivized online experiment, impartial spectators can redistribute the earnings that … generating performance inequality. …
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by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using …It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this …
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Conditions (SILC) for the period 2004-2012. We find a modest rise in health inequality by income in Spain in the five years of … age may reduce health inequality in the short run after an economic recession. …Little is known about what the economic crisis has done to health disparities by income. We apply a decomposition …
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This study attempts to combine two traditional fields in microeconomics: individual decision making under risk and decision making in an interpersonal context. The influence of social comparison on risky choices is explored in an experiment in which participants make a series of choices between...
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