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Measuring income inequality in social networks

Stark, Oded; Bielawski, Jakub; Falniowski, Fryderyk - 2023

the members of a network who are linked with each other by direct social connections. To model the comparisons, we compose … ratio: the network's aggregate level of relative deprivation divided by the aggregate level of the relative deprivation of a … hypothetical network in which one member of the network receives all the income, and it is with this member that the other members …

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Measuring income inequality in social networks

Stark, Oded; Bielawski, Jakub; Falniowski, Fryderyk - 2023

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014443924

Gender differentiation in risk-taking behavior : on the relative risk aversion of single men and single women

Stark, Oded; Zawojska, Ewa - In: Economics letters 137 (2015), pp. 83-87

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Gender differentiation in risk-taking behavior : On the relative risk aversion of single men and single women

Stark, Oded; Zawojska, Ewa - 2015

We relate an observed difference between single men (SM) and single women (SW) in attitudes towards risk to the higher value assigned to social status by SM than by SW. In the marriage market, low status carries a harsher penalty for SM than for SW because when selecting a partner, the social...

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The likelihood of divorce and the riskiness of financial decisions

Stark, Oded; Szczygielski, Krzysztof - 2019

We link causally the riskiness of men's management of their finances with the probability of their experiencing a divorce. Our point of departure is that when comparing single men to married men, the former manage their finances in a more aggressive (that is, riskier) manner. Assuming that...

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