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The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence

Fehr, Ernst; Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias - 2011

We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. Varying the allocation recipient as either an in-group or an out-group...

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Consumer preferences for water supply? An application of choice models to urban India

Anand, P. B. - 2001

options is examined using discrete choice models. Whether consumer preferences are hierarchical or lexicographic is also …

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Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Cruces, Guillermo; Truglia, Ricardo Pérez; Tetaz, Martín - 2012

Individual perceptions of income distribution play a vital role in political economy and public finance models, yet there is little evidence regarding their origins or accuracy. This study examines how individuals form these perceptions and explores their potential impact on preferences for...

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A preference for migration

Stark, Oded - 2007

At least to some extent migration behavior is the outcome of a preference for migration. The pattern of migration as an outcome of a preference for migration depends on two key factors: imitation technology and migration feasibility. We show that these factors jointly determine the outcome of a...

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Personal preferences in networks

Orlova, Olena - 2019

We consider a network of players endowed with individual preferences and involved in interactions of various patterns. We show that their ability to make choices according to their preferences is limited, in a specific way, by their involvement in the network. The earlier literature demonstrated...

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Maximal Condorcet domains: A further progress report

Puppe, Clemens; Slinko, Arkadii - 2022

Condorcet domains are sets of preference orders such that the majority relation corresponding to any profile of preferences from the domain is acyclic. The best known examples in economics are the single-peaked, the single-crossing, and the group separable domains. We survey the latest...

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Representing the future in aging societies: Policy implications of the voting age reform in Germany

Asatryan, Zareh - 2022

Aging societies face a fundamental challenge: How to represent future oriented policies in the politics of today? Voting age reforms and, more generally, policies that encourage the participation of the youth in politics are discussed as one solution. In this report, we study whether voting age...

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Preferences over the racial composition of neighborhoods: Estimates and implications

Davis, Morris A.; Gregory, Jesse; Hartley, Daniel A. - 2023

We estimate the parameters of a dynamic, forward-looking neighborhood choice model in 197 metro areas where households … on location choice that relies only on across-metro comparisons of similarly situated neighborhoods. For the "shift," we …

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An Outcome-Oriented Theory of Choice and Empirical Paradoxes in Expected Utility Theory

Kaneko, Fumihiro - 1997

I analyze observed choice between lotteries from an outcome-oriented point of view in the framework of choice between … random variables. I characterize a choice maker, who faces a choice situation between lotteries, by (1) a surmising process … that associates, with a pair of lotteries, a set of well-defined choice situations between random variables, and (2) a …

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A Unified Framework for Estimating Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods

Bayer, Patrick; Ferreira, Fernando; McMillan, Robert - 2003

the treatment of heterogeneity and selection that has been the focus of the traditional discrete choice literature with a …

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