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Inequality, crime, and the long-run legacy of slavery
Buonanno, Paolo; Vargas, Juan F. - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786415
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Inequality, crime, and the long-run legacy of slavery
Buonanno, Paolo; Vargas, Juan F. - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661304
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The #MeToo movement and judges' gender gap in decisions
Cai, Xiqian; Chen, Shuai; Cheng, Zhengquan - 2024
Gender inequality and discrimination still persist, even though the gender gap in the labor market has been gradually decreasing. This study examines the effect of the #MeToo movement on judges' gender gap in their vital labor market outcome-judicial decisions on randomly assigned legal cases in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581133
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The #MeToo Movement and Judges' Gender Gap in Decisions
Cai, Xiqian; Chen, Shuai; Cheng, Zhengquan - 2024
Gender inequality and discrimination still persist, even though the gender gap in the labor market has been gradually decreasing. This study examines the effect of the #MeToo movement on judges' gender gap in their vital labor market outcome-judicial decisions on randomly assigned legal cases in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014566206
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Risikobereitschaft und weitere Faktoren korrelieren mit Umverteilungspräferenzen
Gärtner, Manja; Mollerstrom, Johanna - In: DIW Wochenbericht 85 (2018) 18, pp. 393-398
Wie viel Umverteilung Bürgerinnen und Bürger in der Gesellschaft möchten, hängt von sozioökonomischen Faktoren und ihren Ansichten über Gerechtigkeit ab. Diese Studie, basierend auf einer in Schweden durchgeführten, repräsentativen Umfrage, bestätigt frühere Ergebnisse: Demnach nimmt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011859044
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Risikobereitschaft und weitere Faktoren korrelieren mit Umverteilungspräferenzen
Gärtner, Manja; Mollerstrom, Johanna - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 85 (2018) 18, pp. 393-398
Wie viel Umverteilung Bürgerinnen und Bürger in der Gesellschaft möchten, hängt von sozioökonomischen Faktoren und ihren Ansichten über Gerechtigkeit ab. Diese Studie, basierend auf einer in Schweden durchgeführten, repräsentativen Umfrage, bestätigt frühere Ergebnisse: Demnach nimmt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011843115
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Individual notions of distributive justice and relative economic status
Barr, Abigail; Burns, Justine; Miller, Luis; Shaw, Ingrid - Economics Group, Nuffield College, Department of Economics - 2011
We present two experiments designed to investigate whether individuals’ notions of distributive justice are associated with their relative (within-society) economic status. Each participant played a specially designed four-person dictator game under one of two treatments, under one initial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320955
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Individual notions of distributive justice and relative economic status
Barr, Abigail; Burns, Justine; Miller, Luis; Shaw, Ingrid - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2011
We present two experiments designed to investigate whether individuals’ notions of distributive justice are associated with their relative (within-society) economic status. Each participant played a specially designed four-person dictator game under one of two treatments, under one initial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365986
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Welfare as Simple(x) Equity Equivalents
Berger, Loïc; Emmerling, Johannes - 2017
Inequity plays a fundamental role in the evaluation of social welfare in many dimensions. We revisit the concept of inequity, whether across states of world (uncertainty), across individuals (inequality) and across generations (intergenerational equity), using a common framework generalizing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662424
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Welfare as simple(x) equity equivalents
Berger, Loïc; Emmerling, Johannes - 2017
Inequity plays a fundamental role in the evaluation of social welfare in many dimensions.We revisit the concept of inequity, whether across states of world (uncertainty), across individuals (inequality) and across generations (intergenerational equity), using a common framework generalizing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622070