Similar Search Results

Regional development in advanced countries: A within-country application of the Human Development Index for Austria

Schrott, Lukas; Gächter, Martin; Theurl, Engelbert - 2012

Since its implementation in 1990 the human development index (HDI), the flagship indicator of multidimensional … development, has attracted a great deal of attention and critics in academic, political and media circles. It initiated a new … stage in the discussion of appropriate indicators to measure socioeconomic development. Until now, the vast majority of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312225

Retaining the Thin Blue Line: What Shapes Workers' Intentions not to Quit the Current Work Environment

Gächter, Martin; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2010

The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of police officers' intentions to quit their current department. For this purpose, we analysed US survey data that included a large set of police officers from the Baltimore Police Department in Maryland. Our results indicate that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294817

Which income comparisons matter to people, and how? Evidence from a large field experiment

Xu, Xiaogeng; Metsälampi, Satu; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2023

the effects, for a set of alternative welfare measures, to the standard national reference group and to a control group …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374606

Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment

Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin G.; Putterman, Louis; … - 2010

We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a 2x2 design, subjects either vote on or exogenously...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294801

Fairness views and political preferences: Evidence from a representative sample

Müller, Daniel; Renes, Sander - 2019

We elicit distributional fairness ideals of impartial spectators using an incentivized elicitation in a large and heterogeneous sample of the German population. We document several empirical facts: i) egalitarianism is the predominant ideal; ii) females are more egalitarian than men; iii) men...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140884

The logic of inequality extraction: An application to Gini and top incomes data

Exenberger, Alexander - 2017

As embodied in the concept of "inequality extraction" (Branko Milanovic), it is not possible to increase inequality (especially income inequality) in a society sustainably to levels beyond what is actually socially acceptable (and even less to levels endangering physical subsistence of parts of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869130

Fairness views and political preferences: Evidence from a large online experiment

Muller, Daniel; Renes, Sander - 2017

We elicit distributional fairness ideals of impartial spectators using an incentivized economic experiment in a large and heterogeneous sample of the German population. Our dataset allows us to relate our experimental data on fairness ideals to a large range of socio-demographic characteristics,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869131

Social class and (un)ethical behavior: Causal versus correlational evidence

Gsottbauer, Elisabeth; Müller, Daniel; Müller, Samuel; … - 2020

Are upper class individuals less ethical? Highly popularized research findings support this notion. This paper provides a novel test to evaluate the relationship between social status and ethical behavior. We successfully prime a large heterogeneous sample of the German population as either high...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609019

Diagnostic Uncertainty and Insurance Coverage in Credence Goods Markets

Balafoutas, Loukas; Fornwagner, Helena; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2020

net effect on welfare. In the experiment, the net effect of insurance coverage on efficiency turns out to be positive. We …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609030

The role of non-binding pledges in social dilemmas with mitigation and adaptation

McEvoy, David M.; Haller, Tobias; Blanco, Esther - 2019

This study presents experimental results on the role that non-binding pledges have on the ability of resource users to manage the threat of probabilistic group damages in two separate environments. First, an environment where agents can work collectively to try to mitigate the root cause of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140880