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health, and fairness of pay … variability therefore uncovers a mechanism of how perceptions of unfairness can adversely affect cardiovascular health. We further … test potential adverse health effects of unfair pay using data from a large representative data set. Complementary to our …
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While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...
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We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental … designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …
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Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most … they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness? How does …
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We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects trust significantly more than selfish ones. This finding raises questions about theories of social preferences which predict that "fairer" players should trust less
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and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually …
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This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they … Shapley value decomposition approach, we first show that childhood circumstances may explain 1-23 percent of health inequality …
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We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60 … for between 3.75% and 29.57% of total health inequality in old age across the range of biomarkers. Shapley … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) linked with the 2014 CHARLS Life History Survey. We use a range of …
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We measure unfair health inequality in the UK using a novel data- driven empirical approach. We explain health … Longitudinal Study. We show that unfair inequality is a substantial fraction of the total explained health variability. This … variability as the result of circumstances beyond individual control and health-related behaviours. We do this using model …
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aware of the fact that the empirical basis of this literature relies to a large extent on experiments that do not provide … selfish incentives to engage in seemingly other-regarding behavior. If this were the case these experiments would overestimate …
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