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Effective climate action must address both social inequality and inequality aversion

open access: yesnpj Climate Action
While social inequality limits the less affluent’s ability to support climate action, we develop a theoretical framework that analyzes how disadvantageous inequality aversion diminishes motivation for climate cooperation among the broader population.
Joël Berger, Ulf Liebe
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Modeling Inequity Aversion in a Dictator Game with Production

open access: yesGames, 2012
We expand upon the previous models of inequity aversion of Fehr and Schmidt [1], and Frohlich et al. [2], which assume that dictators get disutility if the final allocation of surplus deviates from the equal split (egalitarian principle) or from the ...
Ismael Rodriguez-Lara   +1 more
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Contracts and Inequity Aversion [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2002
Using the concept of Inequity Aversion we derive in a Moral Hazard setting several results which differ from conventional contract theory. Our three key insights are: First, inequity aversion plays a crucial role in the design of optimal contracts. Second, there is a strong tendency towards linear sharing rules, giving a simple and plausible rationale ...
Florian Englmaier, Achim Wambach
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Fairness requires deliberation: The primacy of economic over social considerations

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
While both economic and social considerations of fairness and equity play an important role in financial decision-making, it is not clear which of these two motives is more primal and immediate and which one is secondary and slow.
Guy eHochman   +3 more
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The Timing and Strength of Inequality Concerns in the UK Public Debate: Google Trends, Elections and the Macroeconomy

open access: yesEconomies
Inequality among people has several unwanted effects, in humanistic, social and economic contexts. Several studies address distributional preferences among groups, but little is known about when inequality issues are focused and when and why inequality ...
Knut Lehre Seip, Frode Eika Sandnes
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Do we care about the powerless third? An ERP study of the three-person ultimatum game.

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2012
Recent years have provided increasing insights into the factors affecting economic decision making. Little is known about how these factors influence decisions that also bear consequences for other people. We examined whether decisions that also affected
Johanna eAlexopoulos   +5 more
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The Relationship between Ethics and Economics in Substantiating the Government Economics Policy: Agent-Based Approach [PDF]

open access: yesAlterEconomics
The article examines the relationship between ethical ideas and the main stages of scientific and technological development. The creation of Kant’s system coincided with industrial development and the spread of a market economy, often accompanied by ...
Tatyana S. Novikova
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Inequality Aversion for Climate Policy

open access: yesReview of Environmental Economics and Policy
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Del Campo, S., Anthoff, D., Kornek, U.
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Does prioritization of COVID vaccine distribution to communities with the highest COVID burden reduce health inequity?

open access: yesJournal of Infection and Public Health
Background: Communities hardest-hit by early SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks accrued more immunity, but prioritizing these communities for vaccination could reduce health disparities.
Hae-Young Kim   +8 more
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Self-interest overrides rank-reversal aversion in resource distribution

open access: yesScientific Reports
The equitable allocation of resources has long been a central concern for humanity, prompting extensive research into various motivations that drive the pursuit of distributive justice.
Minyoung Kim, Kun Il Kim, Hackjin Kim
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