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Social Preferences in Childhood and Adolescence : A Large-Scale Experiment

Sutter, Matthias - 2010

and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually …

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Household Decision Making in Rural China : Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses

Carlsson, Fredrik - 2010

Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses' relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on inter-temporal choice), we let each spouse first make individual decisions and...

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The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment : Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments

Akay, Alpaslan - 2011

altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one …

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Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership : A Field Experiment in Rural China

Carlsson, Fredrik - 2009

We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the...

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The Effect of Religiosity and Religious Festivals on Positional Concerns : An Experimental Investigation of Ramadan

Akay, Alpaslan - 2011

This paper examines the effect of religion on positional concerns using survey experiments. We focus on two of the … dimensions of religion – degree of religiosity and religious festivals. By conducting the experiments during both the most …

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Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan - 2009

We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey experiment. On average, we found positional concerns neither in income per se nor in income from aid projects among the farmers. These results support the claim that positional...

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Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach

Frick, Joachim R. - 2006

This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after …

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Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective

D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2011

This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...

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Positional Concerns Through the Life Cycle : Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data and Survey Experiments

Akay, Alpaslan - 2012

This paper uses both subjective well-being and survey experimental data to analyze how people's positional concerns regarding income and goods vary with age. The subjective well-being approach is mainly based on German panel data for the period 1984-2009 (German Socio-Economic Panel), while the...

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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus : The Importance of Choosing the 'Right' Indicator

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2010

inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …

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