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We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental … designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …
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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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's merit judgments are sensitive to this endogeneity of choice. In a series of incentivized experiments with a large … strongly influenced by circumstances. Additional experiments identify the cause of this neglect. In light of an uncertain …
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Meritocracies aspire to reward hard work and promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances into which they were born. However, circumstances often shape the choice to work hard. I show that people's merit judgments are "shallow" and insensitive to this effect. They hold others...
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, altruism and concern for inequality. We find that decision makers who are selected democratically are generally more efficiency …
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Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most … they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness? How does … this depend on the type of redistribution involved? -- redistribution ; fairness ; pension ; insurance ; experiment …
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Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most … they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness? How does … this depend on the type of redistribution involved?. -- redistribution ; fairness ; pension ; insurance ; experiment …
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Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most … they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness? How does …
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Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most … they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness? How does …
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experiments have revealed, however, that most people do in fact have redistributional preferences that are not merely inspired by …, individuals make choices in front of the veil of ignorance and know their position. Experiments show that preferences for …, in particular, if inequality is due to chance rather than effort. There are also significant differences in preferences …
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