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Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experiments on preferences for redistribution conducted in the U.S. and several European countries to disentangle these potential …
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dictator game. In our experiment teams are more selfish than individuals, and the most selfish team member has the strongest …
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Attitudes towards fairness and redistribution differ along socio-economic lines, resulting in political conflict. To … experiment, we investigate how subjects allocate their visual attention to the contributions of merit and luck in the generation … redistribution, and suggest that attention-based policy interventions may be effective in reducing polarized views on inequality. …
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's genetics. I investigate whether individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in … generating performance inequality. In an incentivized online experiment, impartial spectators can redistribute the earnings that … study highlights that individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in …
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The Netherlands has a unique tradition in which all major Dutch political parties provide CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis with highly detailed proposals for the tax-benefit system in every national election. This information allows us to quantitatively measure the...
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This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's second-best allocation in a market economy. An example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible allocations. Hammond's (1979) "principle of taxation" proves that any...
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This paper presents a study on the recently proposed linear inequality representation of Arrovian Social Welfare Functions (ASWFs). We first give an alternative proof of the ASWF integer linear inequality representation theorem, and then show several sufficient conditions on preference domains...
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decision making in an interpersonal context. The influence of social comparison on risky choices is explored in an experiment … the predictions of prospect theory extrapolated to a social context. …
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We propose an instrument to measure individuals' social preferences regarding equity and efficiency behind a veil of ignorance. We pair portfolio and wealth distribution choice problems which have a common budget set. For a given bundle, the distribution over an individual's wealth is the same...
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