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We design a novel experiment to identify aversion to pure (univariate) health inequality separately from aversion to … income-related and income-caused health inequality. Participants allocate resources to determine health of individuals … preferences while accounting for noise. The median person has strong aversion to pure health inequality, challenging the health …
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associations with the allocations to estimate responsibility-sensitive weights that reflect inequality aversion and health … non-smokers, respectively. Inequality aversion lowers weights on females and non-smokers, who are health-advantaged, and …We estimate responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health that facilitate inequalityand inequity-sensitive policy …
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Air pollution generates vast health burdens and economic costs around the world. Pollution exposure varies greatly …, both between countries and within them. But the degree of air quality inequality and its' trajectory have not been … quantified at a global level. I use economic inequality indices to measure global inequality in exposure to ambient fine …
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behavioral economics, positing a generalized aversion to inequality that is stronger when one's own payoff is lower - rather than …
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investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is amplified by suspicious success - achievements that may arise from … to different views on whether to accept inequality. Left-wing spectators substantially reduce inequality when cheating is …. These results suggest that redistributive preferences will diverge even more once public awareness increases that inequality …
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Abstract: We study the impact of unjust inequality on social trust and trustworthiness, and its separate effect on the … economic inequality on social interactions. Probing the boundaries of this effect, we document that this erosion of social …
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when such conditional fair-ness preferences are measured using the “inequality acceptance” method. Depending on the default …, implemented inequality decreases by over 65% and cross-country differences are not observed. To organize the data, we develop a … identify distributional preferences and default effects, and discuss best practices for measuring fairness preferences. …
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inequity, whether across states of world (uncertainty), across individuals (inequality) and across generations …
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People who are unable to maintain the same standard of living as others around them experience a sense of relative deprivation that has been shown to reduce feelings of well-being. Relative deprivation reflects conditions of worsening relative poverty despite striking reductions in absolute...
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by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using …It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this …
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