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Inequity Aversion in Tournaments [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 We consider the cost of providing incentives through tournaments when workers are inequity averse and performance evaluation is costly. The principal never benefits from empathy between the workers, by he may benefit from their propensity for envy ...
Claude Fluet, Dominique Demougin
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Pigouvian tax aversion and inequity aversion in the lab [PDF]
Economics Bulletin, 2010 We use an experimental market with externalities to test whether inequality aversion could help explain the popularity of earmarking tax revenues. We find that voter opposition is not fully explained by material self-interest: Results indicate that ...
Steffen Kallbekken +2 more
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Contracts and Inequity Aversion [PDF]
SSRN 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 ...
Englmaier, Florian, Wambach, Achim
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Time pressure increases children’s aversion to advantageous inequity [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThe relative contribution of intuitive and reflective cognitive systems in cooperative decision making is a topic of hot debate. Research with adults suggests that intuition often favors cooperation, but these effects are contextually sensitive. Emerging
John Corbit
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It’s not fair: Folk intuitions about disadvantageous and advantageous inequity aversion [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2017 People often object to inequity; they react negatively to receiving less than others (disadvantageous inequity aversion), and more than others (advantageous inequity aversion).
Alex Shaw, Shoham Choshen-Hillel
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Dissecting Inequality-Averse Preferences [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 Using an experimental-questionnaire method combined with randomized information treatments, this paper analyzes the drivers of individual inequality aversion. We elicit inequality aversion by asking a sample of more than 1800 Uruguayan students to choose a society for a hypothetical grandchild.
Marcelo Bérgolo +5 more
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Reward type influences adults' rejections of inequality in a task designed for children.
PLoS ONE, 2022 In the context of economic games, adults sacrifice money to avoid unequal outcomes, showing so-called inequity aversion. Child-friendly adaptations of these games have shown that children, too, show inequity aversion.
Katherine McAuliffe +2 more
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Inequality aversion and externalities [PDF]
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2011 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. Direct effects are present when a player changes his action to affect disutility caused by inequality.
Gürtler, Marc, Gürtler, Oliver
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Inequity Aversion May Increase Inequity [PDF]
The Economic Journal, 2006 Inequity aversion models have been used to explain equitable payoff divisions in bargaining games. I show that inequity aversion can actually increase the asymmetry of payoff division if unanimity is not required. This is due to the analogy between inequity aversion and risk aversion. Inequity aversion may also affect comparative statics: the advantage
Montero, Maria, Montero, Maria
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Heliyon, 2023 The present study was designed to investigate the disadvantageous and advantageous inequity aversion of young and older adults in situations which allowed them to maximize or minimize payoff inequalities.
Agnès Falco +3 more
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