Early reports suggest the fatality rate from COVID-19 varies greatly across countries, but non-
random testing and incomplete vital registration systems render it impossible to directly …

Fairness considerations fundamentally affect human behavior, but our understanding of the
nature and development of people's fairness preferences is limited. The dictator game has …

There are striking differences in inequality and redistribution between the United States and
Scandinavia. To study whether there are corresponding differences in social preferences …

This paper shows one way of generalizing the standard framework of inequality
measurement to allow for a distinction between fair and unfair inequalities. We introduce the …

This paper studies the role of family background in explaining differences in the willingness
to compete in a cognitive task. By combining data from a lab experiment conducted with a …

This article uses a novel identification strategy to measure power in the household. Our
strategy is to elicit women's willingness to pay to receive a cash transfer instead of their …

Purchasing power–adjusted incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured
with bias. This paper estimates the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table …

We exploit a unique data set, combining rich experimental data with high-quality
administrative data, to study dropout from the college track in Norway, and why boys are …

Fairness preferences fundamentally affect individual behavior and play an important role in
shaping social and political institutions. However, people differ both with respect to what …

We report on a study of whether people believe that the rich are richer than the poor
because they have been more selfish in life, using data from more than 26,000 individuals in …