Title of dissertation: ESSAYS ON INEQUALITY, SOCIAL MOBILITY AND REDISTRIBUTIVE PREFERENCES IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES Alexandru Cojocaru, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Dissertation directed by: Professor Carol Graham School of Public Policy In this dissertation I rely on attitudinal and subjective well-being data from Transition Economies to examine several aspects of the relationship between inequa...

In this paper, we use stated satisfaction to estimate social preferences: subjects report their with payment-profiles that hold own payment constant while varying another subject's payment. This approach yields significant support for the inequity aversion model of Fehr and Schmidt (1999). is among most renowned in behavioral economics, positing a generalized inequality stronger when one's payo...

We study a revenue maximization problem in the context of social networks. Namely, we generalize model introduced by Alon, Mansour, and Tennenholtz [2] that captures inequity aversion, i.e., it fact prices offered to neighboring nodes should not differ significantly. first provide approximation algorithms for natural class instances, where total is sum single-value functions. Our results improv...

Prior research has shown that proximal states are important mechanisms through which distal states relate to IT usage. In particular, the influence of distal traits tied to social activity has not been incorporated into the nomological network surrounding information technology (IT) use. Addressing this literature gap, the authors develop their research model using Social Cognitive Theory and e...

The opportunity to tell a white lie (i.e., a lie that benefits another person) generates a moral conflict between two opposite moral dictates, one pushing towards telling always the truth and the other pushing towards helping others. Here we study how people resolve this moral conflict. What does telling a white lie signal about a person’s pro-social tendencies? To answer this question, we cond...

organizational culture of an organization is one of the fundamental staffs' job satisfaction factors. this study aimed to determine the effects of organizational culture on faculty members' job satisfaction using hofstede's model. in a descriptive applied study 61 faculty members of shahid beheshti university of medical sciences were randomly selected and studies in 2015. hofstede's model were ...

This chapter presents a dialog between the two authors, a social psychologist and an economist, who review, comment, and analyze their joint efforts. Their first project began in 1974. Their experiments investigated coalitions, bargaining, risk aversion, and deadlines. Brief descriptions of their work provide a foundation for observations on the history and progress of experimental economics.

Despite the fact that people make decisions for others as often as they make decisions for themselves, little is known about how decisions for others are different from those made for the self. In two experiments, we investigated the effect of social distance (i.e., making decisions for oneself, a friend, or a stranger) on risk preferences in both gain and loss situations. We found that people ...

We investigate the relationship between intergenerational socio-economic mobility and subjective wellbeing (SWB) using data from the General Social Survey (GSS). We look at three different measures of intergenerational mobility—social, educational, and income mobility. We find that downward mobility with respect to all three measures has a negative effect on the self-reported level of happiness...