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Deliberation favors social efficiency by helping people disregard their relative shares : evidence from US and India
Capraro, Valerio; Corgnet, Brice; Espín, Antonio M.; … - 2016
tension between increasing the total level of group resources (i.e. social efficiency) and distributing these resources among … are associated with individuals' concerns for social efficiency. These findings demonstrate that deliberation favors … social efficiency by overriding individuals' intuitive tendency to focus on relative shares. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504770
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Does performance information affect job seekers in selecting private providers in voucher-based ALMP programs?
Gerdes, Christer - 2015
there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510615
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"We are the world" : when more equality improves efficiency and antipandemic consumptions are intervened
Guo, Liang; Xu, Wendy - In: Marketing science 42 (2023) 2, pp. 214-232
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Equality, equity, and incentives: An experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin G.; Putterman, Louis; … - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2010
We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a 2x2 design, subjects either vote on or exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159141
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Can Redistribution Enhance the Competitiveness of an Economy?
Gočev, Petr - In: Politická ekonomie 2010 (2010) 6, pp. 805-813
income premium enjoyed by households with higher initial wealth endowment end eliminating deadweight detriments to efficiency … enforced by the government. The article concludes with a discussion of the general relationship between equality … (redistribution) and efficiency. …
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Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment
Dalafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin G.; Putterman, Louis; … - Brown University, Department of Economics - 2010
We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a 2x2 design, subjects either vote on or exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008643832
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Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin G.; Putterman, Louis; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010
We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a 2x2 design, subjects either vote on or exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676887
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Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kocher, Martin G.; Putterman, Louis; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, self-interest, and the need for incentives. In a 2x2 design, subjects either vote on or exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008678697
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A gender-adjusted measure of literacy
Subramanian, Sreenivasan - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 1, pp. 436-441
reflects the cost of failing to achieve equality in the gender-distribution of literacy. The argument revolves around an ‘efficiency … the presumed foregone benefits of the positive externalities to be had from female literacy. Efficiency considerations …
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Evaluating Efficiency-Effectiveness-Equality Trade-Offs: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach
Golany, Boaz; Tamir, Eran - In: Management Science 41 (1995) 7, pp. 1172-1184
original objective of the DEA methodology from measuring efficiency to include the evaluation of various aspects of … effectiveness and equality considerations. The model is formulated as a linear program that can be solved by means of a Dantzig …
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