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Optimal Contracts under Inequity Aversion with Voluntary Enforcement (with Tilman Borgers)
We analyze contract structure and efficiency in a Moral Hazard model with possibly fairminded agent and principal when the contract is not automatically enforced but this is a voluntary choice by the contracting parties independently. We find that no penalizing... View Details
- 25 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
DC Alumni and BEI Present Talk on Inequality and Climate Change
Society, and Audrey Choi (MBA 2004), the Former Chief Sustainability Officer at Morgan Stanley. The chat, titled Inequality and Climate Change: Implications for Business Policy and Action, attracted 85 alumni and guests to the University... View Details
- July 2005
- Article
Profit Maximization versus Disadvantageous Inequality in Choice Behavior: The Impact of Self-Categorization
By: S. M. Garcia, A. Tor, M. Bazerman and D. T. Miller
Garcia, S. M., A. Tor, M. Bazerman, and D. T. Miller. "Profit Maximization versus Disadvantageous Inequality in Choice Behavior: The Impact of Self-Categorization." Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 18, no. 3 (July 2005): 187–198.
- 2000
- Working Paper
Resources, Power and Prestige: Formulation of Structural Inequality in Social Exchange Networks
By: Bharat Anand and M.J. Piskorski
- 2008
- Working Paper
Structural Closure and Exposure: Formation of Structural Inequality in Managerial Labor Markets
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Positional advantages arise when actors obtain rewards attached to positions they occupy, but these rewards are not merited by their performance. Existing theory suggests that in competitive markets there should be no positional advantages. This paper proposes a model... View Details
- 02 Jul 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Mums the Word! Cross-national Effects of Maternal Employment on Gender Inequalities at Work and at Home
- 21 Mar 2024
- News
OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
Hernandez. “We had a very lively conversation, and many people came up afterwards, asking when is the next one!” DC Alumni and BEI Present Talk on Inequality and Climate Change The HBS Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) and the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 2014
- Article
Unequality: Who Gets What and Why It Matters
Who should get what, and what are the consequences? Economic inequality in the United States has been rising for decades, yet only recently have behavioral scientists explored two central questions surrounding the optimal level of inequality. First, what are the... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Ethics; Productivity; Gambling; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Income; Performance Productivity; United States
Norton, Michael I. "Unequality: Who Gets What and Why It Matters." Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1, no. 1 (2014): 151–155.
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Great Unequalizer: Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States
By: Marcella Alsan, Amitabh Chandra and Kosali I. Simon
We measure inequities from the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality and hospitalizations in the United States during the early months of the outbreak. We discuss challenges in measuring health outcomes and health inequality, some of which are specific to COVID-19 and others... View Details
Alsan, Marcella, Amitabh Chandra, and Kosali I. Simon. "The Great Unequalizer: Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28958, June 2021.
- 23 Jul 2015
- News
Money Cannot Be the God of Life: How CEO Pay Drives Inequality
- 2015
- Working Paper
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility
By: Gary Becker, Scott Duke Kominers, Kevin Murphy and Jorg L. Spenkuch
We develop a model of intergenerational resource transmission that emphasizes the link between cross-sectional inequality and intergenerational mobility. By drawing on first principles of human capital theory, we derive several novel results. In particular, we show... View Details
Keywords: Intergenerational Mobility; Inequality; Complementarities; Human Capital; Equality and Inequality; Income; Family and Family Relationships
Becker, Gary, Scott Duke Kominers, Kevin Murphy, and Jorg L. Spenkuch. "A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility." Working Paper, August 2015.
- 21 May 2021
- HBS Conference