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The impact of inequality on social value orientation: an eye-tracking study
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionResearchers have developed the social value orientation (SVO) framework to describe prosocial tendencies. However, existing tools for measuring SVO lack sufficient attention to the effect of option inequality, driven by the inequality ...
Qian-Hui Wang +6 more
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RISK AVERSION BEHAVIOR. RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN RISK AVERSION, PRUDENCE AND CAUTIOUSNESS [PDF]
This paper defines decreasing absolute risk aversion in purely behavioral termswithout any assumption of differentiability and shows that a strictly increasing and riskaverse utility function with decreasing absolute risk aversion is necessarily ...
Botoc Claudiu, Pirtea Marilen
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Measuring international inequality aversion [PDF]
, 2008 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 2005. Over time, OECD countries have become less concerned about international inequity.
Tol, Richard S. J.
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Methodological Challenges in Studying Wealthy Families
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying the wealthy is not easy. This piece provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies, and design to gain high‐quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially‐diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. First, to gain access to the wealthy, it is key for the researcher to use a
Annette Lareau
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Inequality, Happiness and Relative Concerns: What Actually is their Relationship? [PDF]
This paper briefly and informally surveys different theoretical models of relative concerns and their relation to inequality. Models of inequity aversion in common use in experimental economics imply a negative relation between inequality and happiness ...
Ed Hopkins
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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Can Risk Aversion Explain Schooling Attainments?: evidence from Italy [PDF]
Using unique Italian panel data, in which individual differences in behavior toward risk are measured from answers to a lottery question, we investigate if (and to what extent) risk aversion can explain differences in schooling attainments.
Christian Belzil, Marco Leonardi
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Inequality aversion and risk attitudes
, 2021 Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion.
Ramos Morilla, Xavier +1 more
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Economic Record, EarlyView.This paper provides causal evidence that persistent changes in macroeconomic conditions in immigrants' countries of origin shape their labour market behaviour in the host country. We develop and empirically test a reference‐dependent framework in the spirit of Kőszegi and Rabin (2006), in which immigrants evaluate their material well‐being in the host ...
Ruoshui Shan, Xiaodong Fan
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Inequality aversion and externalities [PDF]
We conduct a general analysis of the effects of inequality aversion on decisions by homogeneous players in static and dynamic games. We distinguish between direct and indirect effects of inequality aversion.
Gürtler, Marc, Gürtler, Oliver
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