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Risk Preferences Under Extreme Poverty : A Field Experiment
Caballero, Gustavo Adolfo - 2011
Until now, the dominant belief concerning the relationship between poverty and risk aversion is that the poor are more risk averse. If the poor are more risk averse, then they will choose “low risk-low return” activities that trap them in poverty. However, both empirical and experimental...
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Unfair pay and health
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo … - 2014
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative field data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...
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The gender reference point gap
Kettlewell, Nathan; Levy, Jonathan; Tymula, Agnieszka; … - 2023
inequality, we can begin a new discussion on how to address this important issue. …
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In-group bias in preferences for redistribution : a survey experiment in Italy
Bruni, Riccardo; Gioffré, Alessandro; Marino, Maria - 2023
Using a new survey and experimental data, we investigate how information on inequality and immigration affects …
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The meritocratic illusion : inequality and the cognitive basis of redistribution
Blouin, Arthur; Mani, Anandi; Mukand, Sharun W.; Sgroi, … - 2024
Can inequality in rewards result in an erosion in broad-based support for meritocratic norms? We hypothesize that …
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Can money buy friends? : Evidence from a natural experiment
Cuong Viet Nguyen - In: European economic review : EER 136 (2021), pp. 1-22
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Social preferences and public economics : mechanism design when social preferences depend on incentives
Bowles, Samuel (contributor); Hwang, Sung-ha (contributor) - 2008
Social preferences such as altruism, reciprocity, intrinsic motivation and a desire to uphold ethical norms are essential to good government, often facilitating socially desirable allocations that would be unattainable by incentives that appeal solely to self-interest. But experimental and other...
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Social preferences and public economics : mechanism design when social preferences depend on incentives
Bowles, Samuel (contributor); Hwang, Sung-ha (contributor) - 2007
Social preferences such as altruism, reciprocity, intrinsic motivation and a desire to uphold ethical norms are essential to good government, often facilitating socially desirable allocations that would be unattainable by incentives that appeal solely to self-interest. But experimental and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003733924
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Quantifying Ambiguity Bounds Through Hypothetical Statistical Testing
Balter, Anne - 2018
Models can be wrong and recognising their limitations is important in financial and economic decision making under uncertainty. Robust strategies, which are least sensitive to perturbations of the underlying model, take uncertainty into account. Finding the explicit set of alternative models...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937233
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Social Preferences for Mobility : An Experimental Approach
Cinquanta, Giulio - 2019
people's social preferences change conditional to different sources of wealth inequality among generations (periods). We find … not willing to tolerate high wealth inequality and fluctuation among generations (periods) in order to achieve equality of … opportunity. Finally, the source of wealth inequality seems to affect differently people preferences for mobility in the two …
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