How should income be divided? questionnaire evidence from the theory of “Impartial preferences”
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Distributional Axioms; Risk Axioms; Utilitarianism; D31; C91;All these keywords.
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- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
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