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Implications of Diminishing Lifespan Marginal Utility for Valuing Equity in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

open access: yesMDM Policy & Practice
Introduction. Diminishing marginal lifespan utility (DMLU) implies that a particular lifespan increment (e.g., 1 life-year) confers lesser marginal utility if added to longer lifespans (e.g., 90 y to 91 y) than to shorter lifespans (e.g., 60 y to 61 y ...
R. Scott Braithwaite
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Exploring an Age Difference in Preschool Children’s Competitiveness Following a Competition

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Literature suggests that resource acquisition compels competition in young children. However, little is still known about the development of preschool children’s competitiveness. In this preliminary study, 166 children (aged 2–4 and 5–6 years) engaged in
Yu Hu, Yi Zhu
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Inequity Aversion Toward AI Counterparts

open access: yesScientific Reports
Abstract Human moral interactions often assume that resources should be allocated equitably, i.e., one should not take more than one’s fair share. To what extent do people apply this assumption to social AI entities? Using a 21-round Ultimatum Game, we investigated participants’ behavioral, physiological, and affective responses to fair ...
Debanjan Borthakur   +2 more
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Endowment Inequality in Common Pool Resource Games: An Experimental Analysis

open access: yesGames
This 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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Measuring multidimensional inequality and well-being: methods and an empirical application to Italian

open access: yesStatistica, 2013
In this paper, focusing on the normative approach, we review and discuss the main multidimensional inequality measures and inequality-adjusted multidimensional well-being indicators.
David Aristei, Bruno Bracalente
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The impact of inequality on social value orientation: an eye-tracking study

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
IntroductionResearchers 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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The Measurement of the Multidimensional Inequality Index in Urban Areas of Iran [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2018
Inequality is a major problem in the developing countries.  It is also an acute and critical subject in Iran compared with other developing economies.  Besides the existence of inequality, its social effects have made its explanation crucial.
Hossein Raghfar   +2 more
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