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-making because they anticipate the selfishness of other members. Members with median social preferences drive team decisions. Finally …
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Starting from Schelling (1960), several game theorists have conjectured that payoff equity might facilitate coordination in normal-form games with multiple equilibria - the more equitable equilibrium might be selected either because fairness makes it focal or because many individuals dislike...
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We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases … conditions can play in the reduction of crime in an emerging economy context. …
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these dynamics. Relying on a game-theoretic approach, we show how inequality and corruption are interconnected via a crime …
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We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases … conditions can play in the reduction of crime in an emerging economy context …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243242
Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reverse causality and omitted variable bias. This … is found that inequality increases both property crime and violent crime. The estimates are robust to including … traditional determinants of crime (like population density, proportion of young males, average education level, quality of law …
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The empirical evidence for a positive relationship between income inequality and crime is mixed at best. This paper … crime incentives; (ii) for a given level of between-group income mobility, the poor feel more alienated against the rich … model, bipolarization significantly raises the crime rate, whereas the Gini index does not. It is also found that the …
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Recent models of economic fairness assume that at least some people are motivated to reduce economic differences between themselves and other individuals. In addition to this motive, this paper investigates whether people care also about differences between third parties. An experiment is...
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The amount of redistribution people favor depends on socioeconomic factors and their views on fairness. This study, based on a representative survey conducted in Sweden, confirms earlier results: Higher incomes are correlated with wanting less redistribution, women are more in favor of...
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-making because they anticipate the selfishness of other members. Members with median social preferences drive team decisions. Finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052703