Fairness and the development of inequality acceptance

Science

Volumn 328, Issue 5982, 2010, Pages 1176-1178

  Almås, Ingvild ^a,b   Cappelen, Alexander W ^a   Sørensen, Erik Ø ^a,b   Tungodden, Bertil ^a,c  

^a NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c CHR MICHELSEN INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GAME THEORY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENCE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 77953012740     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1187300     Document Type: Article

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