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We model an intergenerational society, with a representative agent at each date, who must deplete a renewable resource, from which he derives utility, to produce consumption goods. We adopt the intergenerational lexicographic minimum as the social welfare function. Initially, technological...
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Legal regulation is the most coercive and effective behaviour modifying tool in our community. As a general rule, law relates to the areas of human activity which are viewed as important to the human condition. It follows that the content of the law; that is, legal rules and principles, are...
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focusing on services for women and girls. It considers different ways of thinking about fairness in health care reform, the … role of courts in promoting fairness, and the use of affirmative action measures to remedy health disparities. The health … fairness, considering availability, accessibility, acceptability of and accountability for services. The transition in judicial …
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This article analyzes the non compliance of the law in Latin America, particularly in Colombia. The core of the paper is the contrast between two different approaches: the strategic vision which argues that this failure is a consequence of the lack of institutional capacity to impose effective...
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Recent theories of fairness (e.g., Bolton & Ockenfels, 2000; Fehr & Schmidt, 1999) have typically used the assumption … simple allocation problem known as dictator game, I find that attitude to fairness is systematically and intuitively related …
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The resurgence of personality tests in selection has sparked interest in factors that may increase the utility and acceptability of these tests. Following a justice framework, the present study explores two possible methods for improving the psychometric properties and test-taker perceptions of...
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Concerns about fairness leave champions of free trade puzzled. First, to some, talk about fairness in trade is … conceptually muddled. Ideas of fairness seem tied to the image of leveling the playing field and thus concerned with equalizing … place? Second, even if this difficulty can be overcome, one wonders how ideas of fairness in trade can do any work …
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element of the party's electoral success. (b) The superior performance of JDP'S predecessors, the Welfare and the Virtue …'s performance on the economic front, with the qualification that a proper assessment would require a longer time frame. Focusing on …
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Proxies for race are commonly used in settings where race cannot be observed directly. In the context of small business lending, we examine the standard race prediction algorithm (BISG), which regulators use to assess compliance with fair lending laws. The algorithm relies on an individual’s...
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