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"Last-place Aversion": Evidence and Redistributive Implications [PDF]
Why do low-income individuals often oppose redistribution? We hypothesize that an aversion to being in "last place" undercuts support for redistribution, with low-income individuals punishing those slightly below themselves to keep someone "beneath" them.
Taly Reich +3 more
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Adding Realism to Theories of Taxpayer Compliance
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Explaining why people pay taxes has not been a central focus in the many important contributions of Jim Cox. Even so, I argue here that his work has greatly affected the way that we think about taxpayer compliance, by adding both directly and indirectly much needed realism to the theories and the applications of compliance. These contributions
James Alm
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International inequity aversion and the social cost of carbon [PDF]
I define the rate of inequity aversion, distinguishing between the pure rate and the consumption rate. I measure the rate of aversion to inequality in consumption as expressed in the development aid given by rich countries to poor ones between 1965 and ...
Richard S.J. Tol
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Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Allais Paradox is often attributed to the strong attraction of a certain option that avoids a downside risk, i.e., a small chance of a low payoff. In contrast, there is clear evidence from laboratory and field data that people are attracted to the upside risk of obtaining a relatively high payoff.
Irene Comeig, Charles Holt
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Inequality and Happiness [PDF]
This paper examines the relationship between inequality and happiness through the lens of heterogeneous values, beliefs and inclinations. Drawing upon opinion data from the European Social Survey for twenty-three countries, we found that individual views
D'Alessio, Giovanni, Biancotti, Claudia
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Inequality Aversion and Performance in and on the Field [PDF]
The experimental literature and studies using survey data have established that people care a great deal about their relative economic position and not solely, as standard economic theory assumes, about their absolute economic position.
Sascha L. Schmidt +4 more
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Contemporary and Future Challenges for Structured Democratic Dialogue
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Structured Democratic Dialogue (SDD) is a participatory problem structuring methodology grounded in Structured Dialogic Design Science. It was created to help diverse stakeholders co‐construct influence maps that reveal leverage points and support coordinated action.
Yiannis Laouris, Gerald Midgley
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Endowment Inequality in Common Pool Resource Games: An Experimental Analysis
GamesThis work addresses whether heterogeneity in player endowments influences investment decisions in common pool resource (CPR) games, shedding light on the relationship between inequality and economic decision making.
Garrett Milam, Andrew Monaco
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Risk Aversion in Cumulative Prospect Theory [PDF]
This paper characterizes the conditions for risk aversion in cumulative prospect theory where risk aversion is defined in the strong sense (Rothshild Stiglitz 1970).
Horst Zank, Schmidt, Ulrich
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The gender gap in risk preferences in rural farm households, with female farmers commonly viewed as more risk‐averse than their male counterparts, may have profound implications for addressing the gendered impacts of climate change. Understanding these gender differences and their drivers is essential for designing policies that enhance ...
Abebe Hailemariam +2 more
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