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Should Animal Welfare Count?
(2006)
This paper discusses the standard welfare economics assumption anthropocentric welfarism, i.e. that only human well-being counts intrinsically. New survey evidence from a representative sample in Sweden is presented, ...
Choosing from Behind a Veil of Ignorance in India
(2002)
Social inequality aversion is measured through a veil-of-ignorance experiment with Indian
students. The median relative risk aversion is found to be quite high, about 3, and
independent caste.
Conspicuous Leisure: Optimal Income Taxation when both Relative Consumption and Relative Leisure Matter
(2009-04-21)
Previous studies on public policy under relative consumption concerns have ignored
the role of leisure comparisons. This paper considers a two-type optimal nonlinear
income tax model where people care both about their ...
Should policy be concerned with objective or subjective risks?
(2003)
Much psychological evidence suggests that people’s risk-perceptions are biased. This
paper assumes that public policy should intrinsically be concerned with people’s
expected welfare, rather than their preferences, which ...
Voting Motives, Group Identity, and Social Norms
(2009-06-17)
The conventional rational voter model has problems explaining why people vote, since the
costs typically exceed the expected benefits. This paper presents Swedish survey evidence
suggesting that people vote based on a ...
Positional Concerns with Multiple Reference Points: Optimal Income Taxation and Public Goods in an OLG Model
(2008-05-19)
This paper concerns optimal income taxation and provision of a state-variable public good
under asymmetric information in a two-type overlapping generations model, where people
care about their relative consumption. Each ...
Who Are the Trustworthy, We Think?
(2006)
In a representative Swedish sample people were asked to judge the relative extent that different groups of people are considered trustworthy in several dimensions, including their political views and reading habits. A ...
Genuine Saving and Conspicuous Consumption
(2014-11)
Much evidence suggests that people are concerned with their relative consumption, i.e., their consumption in relation to the consumption of others. Yet, the social costs of conspicuous consumption have so far played little ...
Anonymity, Reciprocity, and Conformity: Evidence from Voluntary Contributions to a National Park in Costa Rica
(2007-02-21)
We investigate the role of anonymity, reciprocity, and conformity for voluntary contributions, based on a natural field experiment conducted at a national park in Costa Rica. Contributions made in public in front of the ...
Risk Aversion and Expected Utility of Consumption over Time
(2009-04-06)
The calibration theorem by Rabin (2000) implies that seemingly plausible smallstake
choices under risk imply implausible large-stake risk aversion. This theorem is derived
based on the expected utility of wealth model. ...