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Responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health
Robson, Matthew; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Ourti, Tom - 2024
We estimate responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health that facilitate inequalityand inequity-sensitive policy evaluation. In a UK general population sample, 569 online experiment participants distribute constrained resources to determine the health of hypothetical individuals...
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Aversion to health inequality : pure, income-related and income-caused
Robson, Matthew; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Ourti, Tom - 2023
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. Identification comes from random variation in resource...
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Fairness and reciprocity in the Hawk-Dove game
Neugebauer, Tibor; Poulsen, Anders; Schram, Arthur - 2002
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Fair shares and selective attention
Amasino, Dianna; Pace, Davide Domenico; Weele, Joël J. … - 2021 - Revision November 2021
Attitudes towards fairness and redistribution differ along socio-economic lines, resulting in political conflict. To understand the formation of such views and find levers to affect them, we study the role of attention. In a large online experiment, we investigate how subjects allocate their...
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Valuation monotonicity, fairness and stability in assignment problems
Brink, René van den; Núñez, Marina; Robles, Francisco - 2018
In this paper, we investigate the possibility of having stable rules for two-sided markets with transferable utility, that satisfy some valuation monotonicity and fairness axioms. Valuation fairness requires that changing the valuation of a buyer for the object of a seller leads to equal changes...
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Heterogeneous agents, human capital formation and international income inequality
Munandar, Haris - 2008
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Well-being inequality and reference groups : an agenda for new research
Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2010
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Heterogeneous agents, human capital formation and international income inequality
Munandar, Haris - 2007
The paper examines the effect of heterogeneity in individual human capital formation on cross-country income inequality. It considers a two-country model of overlapping generation heterogeneous economies with the following features: (1) individuals are heterogeneous with respect to inborn...
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Growth and inequality : a meta-analysis
Dominicis, Laura de; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, … - 2006
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and empirical approaches have produced ambiguous results on sign and size of this relationship. Although there is a considerable part of the literature that considers inequality...
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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 …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 …
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