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Welfare as simple(x) equity equivalents
Berger, Loïc; Emmerling, Johannes - 2017
inequity, whether across states of world (uncertainty), across individuals (inequality) and across generations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622070
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Higher inequality in Latin America : a collateral effect of the pandemic
Acevedo, Ivonne; Castellani, Francesca; Cota, María José - 2022
This study explores the evolution of inequality in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic using primary data … available from household and employment surveys collected in 2020. Inequality increased on average by 2 percent between 2019 and … 2020, twice the average annual growth in the inequality indicator that marked the decade of growing inequality in the 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014516178
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Decreasing incomes increase selfishness
Gagnon, Nickolas; Saulle, Riccardo D.; Zaunbrecher, … - 2021
augmenting a standard model of inequality aversion. Overall, conditional on exhibiting sufficiently-strong social preferences, we … effect of income inequality on redistribution decisions, we delve into the history behind one's income to isolate the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814519
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Incorporating fairness motives into the impulse balance equilibrium and quantal response equilibrium concepts : an application to 2x2 games
Tavoni, Alessandro - 2009
successful in terms of fit to the experimental data: EQRE, IBE, EIBE, QRE and Nash equilibrium. -- Fairness ; Inequity aversion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008811006
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Natural disasters and demand for redistribution : lessons from an earthquake
Gualtieri, Giovanni; Nicolini, Marcella; Sabatini, Fabio; … - 2018
The literature shows that when a society believes that wealth is determined by random "luck" rather than by merit, it demands more redistribution. Adverse shocks, like earthquakes, strengthen the belief that random "bad luck" can frustrate the outcomes achieved with merit. We theoretically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850250
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National pride and tax compliance : a laboratory experiment using a physiological marker
Macintyre, Alison; Chan, Ho Fai; Schaffner, Markus; … - 2021
This paper reports on a laboratory experiment designed specifically to test the influence of national pride on tax honesty while using a physiological marker to observe emotional responses to patriotic priming. Participants were exposed to one of three framing videos before earning income in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430805
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Specific egalitarianism? : inequality aversion across domains
Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014632111
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Individual characteristics and behavior in repeated games : an experimental study
Davis, Douglas; Ivanov, Asen; Korenok, Oleg - 2014
Using a laboratory experiment, we investigate whether a variety of behaviors in repeated games are related to an array of individual characteristics that are popular in economics: risk attitude, time preference, trust, trustworthiness, altruism, strategic skills in one-shot matrix games,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472858
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Identity, homophily and in-group bias
Currarini, Sergio; Menge, Friederike - 2012
matching. -- In-Group Bias ; Homophily ; Endogenous Matching ; Experiments ; Game Theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009539289
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The strength of sensitivity to ambiguity
Cubitt, Robin P.; Kuilen, Gijs van de; Mukerji, Sujoy - 2018
We report an experiment where each subject's ambiguity sensitivity is measured by an ambiguity premium, a concept analogous to and comparable with a risk premium. In our design, some tasks feature known objective risks and others uncertainty about which subjects have imperfect, heterogeneous,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011812703