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Not guilty? : another look at the nature and nurture of economics students
Haucap, Justus; Just, Tobias - 2003
value the fairness of the price system, and examine how deeply such differences are rooted in their course of studies. The …
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Inequality indices as tests of fairness
Kanbur, Ravi; Snell, Andy - 2017
statistical tests for fairness within well-defined income distribution generating processes and a well specified notion of … fairness. We find that the likelihood ratio (LR) test for fairness versus unfairness within two such processes are proportional … their values differently – to compare them to critical values for a test of the null hypothesis of fairness, or to use them …
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Direct Tests of Individual Preferences for Efficiency and Equity
Cox, James C.; Sadiraj, Vjollca - 2011
Departures from "economic man" behavior in many games in which fairness is a salient characteristic are now well …
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Not Guilty? Another Look at the Nature and Nurture of Economics Students
Haucap, Justus; Just, Tobias - 2003
In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077234
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Fairness spillovers : the case of taxation
Cornelißen, Thomas; Himmler, Oliver; König, Tobias - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 90 (2013), pp. 164-180
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Emulation, inequality, and work hours : was Thorsten Veblen right?
Bowles, Samuel; Park, Yongjin - 2004
We investigate Veblen effects on work hours, namely the way that a desire to emulate the consumption standards of the rich induces longer work hours among the rest. Consistent with our model of these asymmetric social comparisons, greater inequality predicts longer work hours in ten OECD...
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Getting lucky : the long-term consequences of exam luck
Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric; Willage, Barton; Willén, … - 2022
This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals’ education and labor market success. We leverage unique features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the end of high school. Lucky students take exams in...
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Understanding Social Preference with Simple Tests
Charness, Gary; Rabin, Matthew - 2001
Departures from self-interest in economic experiments have recently inspired models of ?social preferences?. We design a range of simple experimental games that test these theories more directly than existing experiments. Our experiments show that subjects are more concerned with increasing...
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Social Mobility : Fixed or Pattern?
Caldararo, Niccolo Leo - 2014
Currently there is a significant discussion in academia and the popular press over the present amount of inequality, the history of inequality and the negative effects on economies of inequality. Typical of this debate was a recent article by Martin Wolf in the Financial Times, (30 Sept 2014,...
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Whatś the monetary value of distributive justice
Corneo, Giacomo (contributor);  … - 2007
lines of race and education. -- Distributive Justice ; Governmental Redistribution ; Fairness …
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