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Diaspora remittances social status and inequality

Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

, then in presence of strong social inequality, poor families tend to consume more conspicuous goods in order to hide their …

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Weighted Constrained Egalitarianism in TU-Games

Koster, M.A.L. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

weighted Lorenz-criterion as an inequality measure. It is shown that in general there is at most one such weighted egalitarian …

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Property Crime with Private Protection: A Market-for-Offenses Approach

Hotte, Louis; Valognes, Fabrice; Ypersele, Tanguy van - Département d'Économie / Department of Economics, … - 2009

We analyze property crime in an endowment economy composed of a large number of heterogeneous individuals who need to protect themselves, choose whether to participate in crime or not, and decide on how to allocate their predation efforts across victims. The equilibrium posits perfect foresight...

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Property Crime with Private Protection: A Market-for-Offenses Approach

Hotte, Louis; Valognes, Fabrice; van Ypersele, Tanguy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We propose a market-for-offenses model of property crime, which explicitly accounts for protection expenditures among heterogeneous individuals. The crime equilibrium is modeled as a free-access equilibrium in which the match between criminals and victims equates the average returns to crime. We...

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The Role of Information for Public Preferences on Education - Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Werner, Katharina - 2019

from disadvantaged backgrounds. As it turns out, the majority of the German public perceives inequality in educational …

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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

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