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Shall we kill or enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar model

Jasso, Guillermina - 2008

paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies - justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members' gains, effects of own … killed only in a justice-nonmaterialistic society, and from the noblest of motives - to achieve equal gains for members. …

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Theoretical unification in justice and beyond

Jasso, Guillermina - 2007

examines a series of twenty-one unification surprises in the study of justice and beyond, sixteen in the study of justice and …

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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence: A large-scale experiment

Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - 2010

Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...

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A different look at Lenin's legacy: Trust, risk, fairness and cooperativeness in the two Germanies

Heineck, Guido; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2010

What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of convergence with regard to individuals' trust and risk, as well...

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The rise in obesity across the Atlantic: an economic perspective

Brunello, Giorgio; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; … - 2008

We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyse whether there are economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency considerations, which are organized around three...

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Distributive justice and CEO compensation

Jasso, Guillermina; Meyersson Milgrom, Eva M. - 2007

executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay and the principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists …, based on justice theory and making use of Rossi's factorial survey method, enables assessment of ideas of fairness in CEO …

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Preferences for redistribution

Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - 2009

This paper discusses what determines the preferences of individuals for redistribution. We review the theoretical literature and provide a framework to incorporate various effects previously studied separately in the literature. We then examine empirical evidence for the US, using the General...

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Is crime contagious?

Ludwig, Jens; Kling, Jeffrey R. - 2006

Understanding whether criminal behavior is contagious is important for law enforcement and for policies that affect how people are sorted across social settings. We test the hypothesis that criminal behavior is contagious by using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized...

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Peers at work

Mas, Alexandre; Moretti, Enrico - 2006

We investigate how and why the productivity of a worker varies as a function of the productivity of her co-workers in a group production process. In theory, the introduction of a high productivity worker could lower the effort of incumbent workers because of free riding; or it could increase the...

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The intergenerational transmission of gender role attitudes and its implications for female labor force participation

Farré, Lídia; Vella, Francis - 2007

Using a sample of mother-child pairs from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and the Young Adults of the NLSY79 we explore the relationship between a woman's attitudes towards the role of females in the labor market and the attitudes of her children. We also examine whether...

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