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Thinness and Obesity : A Model of Food Consumption, Health Concerns, and Social Pressure
Dragone, Davide - 2015
The increasing concern of the policy maker about eating behavior has focused on the spread of obesity and on the evidence of a consistent number of individuals dieting despite being underweight. As the latter behavior is often attributed to the social pressure to be thin, some governments have...
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Thinness and Obesity : A Model of Food Consumption, Health Concerns, and Social Pressure
Dragone, Davide; Savorelli, Luca - 2015
The increasing concern of the policy maker about eating behavior has focused on the spread of obesity and on the evidence of a consistent number of individuals dieting despite being underweight. As the latter behavior is often attributed to the social pressure to be thin, some governments have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193857
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Irrational Statistical Discrimination
Mengel, Friederike; Campos Mercade, Pol - 2021
Models of statistical discrimination typically assume that employers make rational inferencefrom (education) signals … disadvantaged groups than Bayesian employers. We find that such irrationalstatistical discrimination deters high-ability workers … our data, around 40% can be attributed torational statistical discrimination, a further 40% is due to irrational …
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Equality of Opportunity
Roemer, John E. - 2013
This forthcoming chapter in the Handbook of Income Distribution (eds., A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon) summarizes the literature on equality of opportunity. We begin by reviewing the philosophical debate concerning equality since Rawls (sections 1 and 2), present economic algorithms for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073893
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Wealth Discrimination Theory
Curtis Jr, James E - 2015
influence. Becker (1957) and Arrow (1972) developed the most general theories of wage discrimination and favoritism. Oaxaca …
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Opportunistic Discrimination
Harbaugh, Rick; To, Ted - 2020
incentive to cheat the minority, and discrimination is the unique equilibrium for firms of intermediate patience …
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The Disability–Employability Divide : Bottlenecks to Equal Opportunity
Areheart, Bradley A.; Stein, Michael Ashley - 2018
with disabilities. This Review applies Fishkin’s theory to explore how disability law creates and perpetuates bottlenecks …
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Government-Mandated Discriminatory Policies
Norman, Peter; Fang, Hanming - 2008
This paper provides a simple explanation for why some minority groups are economically successful, despite being subject to government-mandated discriminatory policies. We study an economy with private and public sectors in which workers invest in imperfectly observable skills that are important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127326
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Does national identity of benefit recipients matter in tax compliance? An Online Experiment in Denmark and Italy
Guerra, Alice; Harrington, Brooke - 2022
an online tax evasion experiment with real tax-funded redistribution to unemployed people via donations to charitable … established theory on welfare states, particularly concepts related to welfare chauvinism and deservingness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083349
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Does National Identity of Benefit Recipients Matter in Tax Compliance? An Online Experiment in Denmark and Italy
Guerra, Alice; Harrington, Brooke - 2023
an online tax evasion experiment with real tax-funded redistribution to unemployed people via donations to charitable … of established theory on welfare states, particularly concepts related to welfare chauvinism and deservingness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262517