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Heterogeneity, inequity aversion, and group performance [PDF]
Social Choice and Welfare, 2015 We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a group output when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of contributions below levels generated by purely selfish agents.
Felix Kölle, Dirk Sliwka, Nannan Zhou
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2018 Background Childhood immunization is one of the most cost-effective interventions for child health. Still, many children are not able to receive completed immunization status.
Owais Raza +3 more
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Cogent PsychologyGrounded in inequality aversion theory and the situated focus theory of power, this study investigates how state power and inequality experiences interact to shape cooperative behavior, and used ERPs to explore the underlying cognitive-neural mechanisms.
Yu-Jie Wang, Yao-Zhong Liu
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Fairness in Risky Environments: Theory and Evidence
Games, 2013 The relationship between risk in the environment, risk aversion and inequality aversion is not well understood. Theories of fairness have typically assumed that pie sizes are known ex-ante. Pie sizes are, however, rarely known ex ante.
Silvester Van Koten +2 more
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iScience, 2023 Summary: Whether commonly used experimental animals show aversion toward inequality of social rewards, as humans do remains unknown. We examined whether rats emitted the 22-kHz distress calls under social reward inequality.
Shota Okabe +3 more
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Informational Inequity Aversion and Performance
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019 In labor markets, some individuals have, or believe to have, less data on the determinants of success than others, e.g., due to differential access to technology or role models. We provide experimental evidence on when and how informational differences translate into performance differences.
Bohnet, Iris, Saidi, Farzad
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Estimation of Optimal Commodity Tax Rates in Iran [PDF]
Faslnāmah-i Pizhūhish/Nāmah-i Iqtisādī, 2008 This study estimates optimal commodity tax rates regarding efficiency and social justice. A many- person Ramsey rule and Bergson – Samuelson social welfare function are used for estimating optimal tax rates.
Abbas Arabmazar, Ali Akbar Bajelan
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Exploring the Motivations for Punishment: Framing and Country-Level Effects.
PLoS ONE, 2016 Identifying the motives underpinning punishment is crucial for understanding its evolved function. In principle, punishment of distributional inequality could be motivated by the desire to reciprocate losses ('revenge') or by the desire to reduce payoff ...
Jonathan E Bone +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 Unique large-scale cooperation and fairness norms are essential to human society, but the emergence of prosocial behaviors is elusive. The fact that heterogeneous social networks prevail raised a hypothesis that heterogeneous networks facilitate fairness
Jing-Yi Li +7 more
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Are dictators averse to inequality? [PDF]
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012 Abstract We present the results of an experiment designed to identify more clearly the motivation underlying dictators’ behavior. In the typical dictator game, recipients are given no endowment. We give an endowment to the recipient as well as the dictator. This new dimension allows us to test directly for inequality aversion.
Oleg Korenok +2 more
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