Does Inequality breed Altruism or Selfishness? Gauging Individuals’ Predispositions Towards Redistributive Schemes
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- Fabiana Machado, 2012. "Does Inequality Breed Altruism or Selfishness? Gauging Individuals' Predispositions towards Redistributive Schemes," Research Department Publications 4762, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department.
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Preferences for redistribution; Inequality; Conditional cash transfers;All these keywords.
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- D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
- H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2012-01-10 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-POL-2012-01-10 (Positive Political Economics)
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