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The way to treat the correlation between circumstances and effort is a central, yet largely neglected issue in the applied literature on inequality of opportunity. This paper adopts three alternative normative ways of treating this correlation championed by Roemer, Barry and Swift and assesses...
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This paper attempts to quantify the contribution of inequalities of opportunities and inequalities due to differences in effort to be in good health to overall health inequality in France. It examines three alternative specifications of legitimate and illegitimate inequalities drawing on Roemer,...
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This paper aims to quantify and compare inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries considering two alternative normative ways of treating the correlation between effort, as measured by lifestyles, and circumstances, as measured by parental and childhood characteristics,...
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Recent research argues “betrayal aversion” leads many people to avoid risk more when a person, rather than nature, determines the outcome of uncertainty. However, past studies indicate that factors unrelated to betrayal aversion, such as loss aversion, could contribute to differences between...
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Previous research has suggested that communication and especially promises increase cooperation in laboratory experiments. This has been taken as evidence for internal motivations such as guilt aversion or preference for promise keeping. The goal of this paper was to examine messages under a...
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dissatisfaction. We then try to find the determinants of this feeling (i.e. a violation of a norm which may destroy the trust …
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motivated by trust in positive reciprocity or fear of negative reciprocity, in addition to unconditional other …
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Using an experimental trust game, I examine whether the perspectives and behavior of group representatives and … research is to extend past work on trust and reciprocity by examining the impact of the social contexts within which social … interactions are characteristically embedded. Specifically, this research concerns whether norms and dynamics of trust and …
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