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of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance …In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination … experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same …
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of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance …In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination … experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327335
The central objective of our paper is to empirically examine the relationship between financial development and income inequality. Theoretically, there are grounds for both a positive and negative relationship between the two variables. Our main finding is that financial development contributes...
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Der entwicklungsökonomische Diskurs ist aktuell geprägt durch eine kontroverse Debatte zwischen Jeffrey Sachs und William Easterly. Der Beitrag rekonstruiert beide Ansätze aus ordonomischer Perspektive. Er argumentiert, dass eine auf Kooperation angelegte Semantik vergleichsweise besser...
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framework for a theory of fairness in the global economy. Based on a distinctive methodology of interpretive constructivism …
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Periods of rapid economic growth in developing countries have been well studied in terms of poverty and income inequality reduction, but much less is known about the performance of these countries in terms of economic mobility. We study intragenerational mobility in Peru using an asset-based...
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a deeper cause that will not yield to this prescription? In particular, could persistently higher expected-risk in the … investment in education and business?... In addressing this possibility, instant utility theory with its deeper foundation than … standard utility theory and mathematical economics is introduced. This deeper understanding is then used to produce a …
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The relationship between the abundance of natural resources and socio-economic performance has been a main object of study in the economic development field since Adam Smith. Dominated by the verification of the so called curse of natural resource, the mainstream literature on the topic has been...
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The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …
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whether this implies the end of the historical two-cluster world rather than merely a transition as some people move from the … the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of …
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