Pollution, unequal lifetimes and fairness

Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior

Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise at a large U.S. retailer. The firm’s use of discrete pay steps created discontinuities in raises, where workers earning within 1 cent of each other received new wages that differed by 10 cents. First, we estim...

The developmental roots of fairness: infants' reactions to equal and unequal distributions of resources.

The problem of how to distribute available resources among members of a group is a central aspect of social life. Adults react negatively to inequitable distributions and several studies have reported negative reactions to inequity also in non-human primates and dogs. We report two experiments on infants' reactions to equal and unequal distributions. In two experiments, infants' looking times a...

Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy

All societies face the need to make judgments about what interventions (both public health and personal medical) to provide to their populations under reasonable resource constraints. Their decisions should be informed by good evidence and arguments from health technology assessment (HTA). But if HTA restricts itself to evaluations of safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness, it risks being vie...

Correction: Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy

Fairness, Computable Fairness, and Randomness