Methods for empirical justice analysis: Part 1. Framework, models, and quantities

Jasso, Guillermina; Wegener, Bernd

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“…Berger et al 1972;Crosby 1976;Hegtvedt et al 2008Hegtvedt et al , 2009. As it offers valuable information on the conceptualization and measurement of preferences and attitudes of perceived injustices (Jasso 2008;Jasso and Wegener 1997), it can help categorize the various links between perceptions of inequality and SWB while paying attention to context-specific norms and value systems (Hegtvedt 2006).…”

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Income Inequality and Subjective Wellbeing: Trends, Challenges, and Research Directions

Schneider

2015

J Happiness Stud

104

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Research findings on the consequences of income inequality for subjective wellbeing (i.e. life satisfaction and happiness) remain inconclusive. Some researchers report a positive spill-over from income inequality, others report negative effects, and still others find no significant outcomes whatsoever. Therefore, it remains unclear whether people living in areas of high income disparity feel better off or less well off than people living in environments where everyone is more equal. This paper provides a critical discussion of recent research on the inequality-wellbeing link and suggests strategies for social scientists seeking new insights into the consequences of income inequality for subjective welfare.

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Income Inequality and Subjective Wellbeing: Trends, Challenges, and Research Directions

Schneider

2015

J Happiness Stud

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“…The actual amount is determined ex-post using a two-step estimation procedure. A classic application is the determination of the just amount of earnings (for details, see Jasso, 2006;Jasso & Meyersson Milgrom, 2008;Jasso & Wegener, 1997). This procedure is based on the theory of Jasso (1978Jasso ( , 2006, according to which the justice evaluation J is the product of the logarithmic ratio of the actual earnings (A) and the just earnings (C), as well as an individual constant (θ) (J iv = θ i × ln (A v / C iv ), with i = judging individual and v = vignette).…”

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Using Factorial Surveys to Study Justice Perceptions: Five Methodological Problems of Attitudinal Justice Research

2015

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DFG Research Center (SFB) "From Heterogeneities to Inequalities"Whether fat or thin, male or female, young or old -people are different. Alongside their physical features, they also differ in terms of nationality and ethnicity; in their cultural preferences, lifestyles, attitudes, orientations, and philosophies; in their competencies, qualifications, and traits; and in their professions. But how do such heterogeneities lead to social inequalities? What are the social mechanisms that underlie this process? These are the questions pursued by the DFG Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB)) "From Heterogeneities to Inequalities" at Bielefeld University, which was approved by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as "SFB 882" on May 25, 2011.In the social sciences, research on inequality is dispersed across different research fields such as education, the labor market, equality, migration, health, or gender. One goal of the SFB is to integrate these fields, searching for common mechanisms in the emergence of inequality that can be compiled into a typology. More than fifty senior and junior researchers and the Bielefeld University Library are involved in the SFB. Along with sociologists, it brings together scholars from the Bielefeld University faculties of Business Administration and Economics, Educational Science, Health Science, and Law, as well as from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In addition to carrying out research, the SFB is concerned to nurture new academic talent, and therefore provides doctoral training in its own integrated Research Training Group. A data infrastructure project has also been launched to archive, prepare, and disseminate the data gathered. We assume that individuals evaluate inequalities in terms of whether they consider them just, and that they hold particular attitudes toward justice because, and as long as, these help them to attain their fundamental goals and to solve, especially, the problems that arise through cooperation with other people (cooperative relations). As a result, attitudes on justice are not viewed either as rigidly stable orientations across the life span or as "Sunday best beliefs" i.e. short-lived opinions that are adjusted continuously to fit situational interests. Instead, they are regarded as being shaped by the opportunities for learning and making comparisons in different phases of the life course and different social contexts. ResearchThe goal of the project is to use longitudinal survey data to explain why individuals have particular notions of justice. The key aspect is taken to be changes in the social contextparticularly households, social networks, or workplaces -in which individuals are embedded across their life course. This is because social contexts offer opportunities to make social comparisons and engage in social learning, processes that are decisive in the formation of particular attitudes to justice. The project will test this empirically by setting up a special longitud...

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“…by taking the mean or the geometric mean of the comparison group as a measure of deprivation. Both are simple measures which refer to one point of the distribution; the geometric mean additionally takes loss aversion into account (Jasso and Wegener, 1997). As a robustness check, we calculate arithmetic and geometric means of income and visible wealth within each village and town in our sample (see table 7).…”

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The Role of Visible Wealth for Deprivation

Bertram-Hümmer

Baliki

2014

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract Motivated by the lack of literature linking actual to perceived relative deprivation, this paper assesses the role of visibility in the deprivation of goods and assets vis-à-vis income behind perceptions of relative deprivation. We rely on household survey data that includes unique information on reported perceived deprivation with a pre-specified reference group, namely others in the town or village. Based on a large number of asset and consumption items, we create an index of visible wealth by aggregating visible goods and assets using principal component weights. We find that relative deprivation in visible wealth has a ten percentage point higher explanatory power for reporting a high level of perceived deprivation than that of deprivation in income. The effect is robust under various sensitivity checks and for a number of controls. The finding sheds light on the importance of the visibility of the objects of comparison for an individual's assessment of his relative economic situation and proposes that future research should not solely rely on income-based deprivation measures. Terms of use: Documents in

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Methods for empirical justice analysis: Part 1. Framework, models, and quantities

Cited by 94 publications

References 57 publications

Income Inequality and Subjective Wellbeing: Trends, Challenges, and Research Directions

Income Inequality and Subjective Wellbeing: Trends, Challenges, and Research Directions

Using Factorial Surveys to Study Justice Perceptions: Five Methodological Problems of Attitudinal Justice Research

The Role of Visible Wealth for Deprivation

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