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Consolidating behavioural economics and rational choice theory : insights from inequality research
Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2021
Using illustrations from research on inequality, this paper offers evidence on the strengths of 'behavioural synthesis', i.e. the reconciliation between neoclassical and behavioural economics. We compare how theoretical models of absolute and relative inequality have evolved from assumptions of...
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Gender priming in solidarity games : the Philippine context
Tacneng, Ruth; Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin - 2021
What is the effect of gender priming on solidarity behaviour? We explore a two-player solidarity game where players can … insure each other against the risk of losses. In the utility function, priming is represented as the 'change in weight' given … treatment that involves reminding subjects of their gender. We found that, without priming, there were no statistically …
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Anti-corruption policy-making, discretionary power, and institutional quality : an experimental analysis
Boly, Amadou; Gillanders, Robert - 2016
We analyse policy makers' incentives to fight corruption under different institutional qualities. We find that 'public officials', even when non-corrupt, significantly distort anti-corruption institutions by choosing a lower detection probability when this probability applies to their own...
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Income inequality, redistribution and poverty : contrasting rational choice and behavioural perspectives
Luebker, Malte - 2012
the importance of fairness orientations that have been emphasized in behavioural economics. -- income distribution …
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Legal empowerment and group-based inequality
Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2018
Legal empowerment has become widely accepted in development policy circles as an approach to addressing poverty and exclusion. At the same time, it has received relatively little attention from political scientists and sociologists working on overlapping and closely related topics. Research on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011808903
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Character or context : what explains behavioural dishonesty in low-income countries?
Ferreira, Ines A.; Jones, Sam; Mouco, Jorge - 2020
We run a lab-in-the-field experiment with 1,060 university students in Mozambique to examine the correlates of behavioural dishonesty, distinguishing between intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Using an incentivized dice game, which yields direct estimates of the propensity to cheat, we find that...
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Key behavioural characteristics of small-business owners : a lab-in-the-field experiment in Myanmar
Rand, John; Castro Rodriguez, Paula; Tarp, Finn; … - 2019
This study investigates the role of owners' personal preferences and behaviour in determining the success of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises using a lab-in-the-field experiment with small-business owners in Myanmar. The study is a complement to a 2017 quantitative survey conducted...
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Rationality, emotions, and ethnicity : explaining elite political alignments in a deeply divided society
McDoom, Omar - 2023
The role of ethnicity in political behaviour remains unsettled theoretically. Instrumentalist theories emphasize cognitive processes, arguing that political actors strategically employ ethnicity to attain certain goals, while expressivist theories highlight affectual forces, arguing that actors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014380665
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Gender and distributional preferences : experimental evidence from India
Sharma, Smriti - 2015
) recipients. Finally, most dictators can be classified as egalitarian, meritocratic or selfish. They invoke these fairness views …
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Can gender differences in distributional preferences explain gender gaps in competition?
Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2017
We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as preference for favourable inequality affect competitive choices differently among males and females. We find that selection into competitive environments is: (a) negatively...
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