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Redistributive preferences, redistribution, and inequality : evidence from a panel of OECD countries

Kuhn, Andreas - 2012

This paper describes individuals' inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in a panel of OECD countries, primarily focusing on the association between these subjective measures and the effective level of inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the...

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Biased perceptions of income distribution and preferences for redistribution : evidence from a survey experiment

Cruces, Guillermo; Perez Truglia, Ricardo; Tetaz, Martín - 2011

Individual perceptions of income distribution play a vital role in political economy and public finance models, yet there is little evidence regarding their origins or accuracy. This study examines how individuals form these perceptions and posits that systematic biases arise from the...

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Effect of perceptions and behaviour on access to and use of financial service : evidence from South Africa

Annim, Samuel Kobina; Arun, Thankom; Kostov, Philip - 2012

This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b … three estimations support the hypothesis that financial perception has a greater effect on the decision to access and use … behaviour is greater than financial perception when making decisions on the take-up and use of investment financial services. It …

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Consumer search costs and preferences on the internet

Jolivet, Grégory; Turon, Hélène - 2014

We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price dispersion among adverts for the same product. We also show...

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The compromise effect in action : lessons from a restaurant's menu

Pinger, Pia; Ruhmer-Krell, Isabel; Schumacher, Heiner - 2016

The compromise effect refers to individuals' tendency to choose intermediate options. Its existence has been demonstrated in a large number of hypothetical choice experiments. This paper uses field data from a specialties restaurant to investigate the existence and strength of the compromise...

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Price expectations and reference-dependent preferences

Rutledge, Robert; Alladi, Vinayak; Cheung, Stephen L. - 2022

We experimentally test Kőszegi and Rabin's (2006, 2007) theory of reference-dependent preferences in the context of price expectations. In an incentivised valuation task, participants are endowed with a mug and provide their willingness to accept (WTA) to sell it. We manipulate the sale price...

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Don't patronize me! : an experiment on preferences for authorship

Lübbecke, Silvia; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2019

Do people only reject interference and keep control in order to affect the outcome? We find that 20% of subjects reject unrequired help and insist on their solution to a problem - although doing so is costly and does not change the result. We tease out the motives by varying the information...

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Income misperception and populism

Albers, Thilo N. H.; Kersting, Felix; Kosse, Fabian - 2022

We propose that false beliefs about the own current economic status are an important factor for explaining populist attitudes. Along with the subjects' receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in a representative survey of German households. We...

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The impact of Chernobyl on health and labour market performance in the Ukraine

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2009

positive association between local area-level radiation dosage and health perception based on self-reported poor health status …

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The prostitute's allure : examining returns to beauty, productivity and discrimination

Arunachalam, Raj; Shah, Manisha - 2010

We estimate the earnings premium for beauty in an occupation where returns to physical attractiveness are likely to be important: commercial sex work. In the commercial sex market, perhaps more so than any other sector in the labor market, the beauty premium should be at the extreme due to the...

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