their peers. The present paper is, to the best of our knowledge, the first systematic analysis of income inequality and risk … taking. We perform a real effort field experiment where inequality is introduced to different wage rates. After the effort … the dominant impact of inequality on risk taking is what can be termed a social house money effect: high-wage individuals …

developing countries. Applying inequality indices and Fields' (2001) decomposition methodology to Bolivian household survey data … of the years 1989 to 1997, we identify recent trends in wage inequality of urban Bolivia. Using a rent-based dual …

This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … correlation between the two variables is rather low in international perspective. Urban inequality as measured by the Gini …

subjects were more "meritocratic" than others. Italian subjects reacted the most to the source of inequality, decreasing demand …-country difference in demand for redistribution and opens new perspectives on what may be considered "fair" or "unfair" inequality in …

. This result suggests revisiting common narratives on how meritocracy and tolerance of inequality are related. …