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This paper analyzes responsibility attributions for outcomes of collective decision making processes. In particular, we ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process. We conduct an experimental voting game in which...
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This paper studies multi-dimensional aspects of deprivation associated to the living conditions and inequality status …
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Although economic inequality has long been viewed as a cause of civil conflict, existing research has not found robust … empirical support for this relationship. This study explores the connections between inequality and civil conflict by focusing … data set with country- and group-level measures of inequality within and across ethnic groups. We then show that consistent …
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A comparison of the 2007-08 crisis with that of 1929 showed its extreme gravity, but it also may have implied that the old harmful mistakes would not be repeated. After four years, the crisis has not been solved and it even threatens to worsen. Neo-conservative Republicans claim that this is...
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capital city is positively associated with better governance and more redistribution (proxied by post-tax inequality), in OLS …
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Social theorists frequently argue that social cohesion is under threat in developed societies from the multiple pressures of globalisation. This article seeks to test this hypothesis through examining the trends across countries and regions in key indicators of social cohesion, including social...
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of the group in the conflict and its members’ utilities vary with the degree of within-group inequality. We show that … there is a natural relationship between the group’s probability of victory and the Atkinson index of inequality. If members …
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than one group can expend positive effort in equilibrium. Second, we show that inequality of valuations of victory within …
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We analyze property crime in an endowment economy composed of a large number of heterogeneous individuals who need to protect themselves, choose whether to participate in crime or not, and decide on how to allocate their predation efforts across victims. The equilibrium posits perfect foresight...
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by post-tax inequality), in OLS and IV regressions. Finally, we provide arguments to dismiss possible reverse causation …
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