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Effects of siblings and birth order on income redistribution preferences : evidence based on Japanese general social survey
Yamamura, Eiji - 2012
redistribution regardless of the sibling’s sex. These findings regarding the effect of birth order are not consistent with evidence …The Japanese General Social Survey was used to determine how individual preferences for income redistribution are … affected by family structure, such as the number of siblings and birth order where individuals grow up. After controlling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526919
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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : evidence from German longitudinal data on life satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2002
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436192
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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : evidence from German longitudinal data on life satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2002
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406589
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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2004
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. Three different inequality measures are used. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324200
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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : A revised version
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2003
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. Three different inequality measures are used. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261664
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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence From German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2002
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262817
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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence From German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2002
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260794
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Intra-household allocation of family resources and birth order : evidence from France using siblings data
Mechoulan, Stéphane; Wolff, François-Charles - In: Journal of population economics 28 (2015) 4, pp. 937-964
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377230
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Examining the effects of birth order on personality
Rohrer, Julia M.; Egloff, Boris; Schmukle, Stefan Christian - 2015
This study examined the long-standing question of whether a person’s position among siblings has a lasting impact on … different analytical strategies by comparing siblings with different birth-order positions (i) within the same family (within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441625
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Born to lead? : the effect of birth order on non-cognitive abilities
Black, Sandra E.; Grönqvist, Erik; Öckert, Björn - 2016
penalty the larger the share of boys among the older siblings. When we investigate possible mechanisms, we find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598133