Fairness Across the World https://openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/3184837/DP%2006.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
"… the meritocratic #fairness view is not universally accepted, and plays only a marginal role in many countries, especially outside of the Western world.
… #meritocracy is particularly prominent in richer countries
… people’s belief about the source of #inequality is crucial for whether they consider inequality in their society to be fair, but we also establish that these beliefs are particularly important in countries where people endorse the meritocratic fairness views
… It appears plausible that the meritocratic fairness view is conducive to economic #growth
… cross-country differences in #redistribution through taxes and transfers also are associated with differences in fairness views, with more redistribution in countries with a higher share of meritocrats, which highlights the importance of incorporating #heterogeneity in both fairness preferences and beliefs when studying the political economy of redistribution
… people’s view on redistribution is primarily driven by fairness considerations, the perception that inequality in their country is unfair, rather than #efficiency considerations"
#ExperimentalEcon

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Mar 27th, 2025

https://bit.ly/stc032725

#Rarotonga #Aitutaki #SBMA #hotspot #carbon-fluorine #phosphorus #Fluorspar #mechanochemical #heterogeneity #generalized #framework #large-scale #formation #planetary #fluid-mechanics #chemistry #polymers #cross-linked #diimide #E-factor

A Site Selection Framework For Urban Power Substation At Micro-Scale Using Spatial Optimization Strategy And Geospatial Big Data
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https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.13093 <-- shared paper
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“In this study, [they] model spatiotemporal heterogeneity and incorporate it into optimizing the location of substations. The optimized substation placement ensures electrical service coverage for over 99% of the area during peak power usage seasons, compared to the current coverage of 72%...”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #siting #demand #electricity #heterogeneity #substations #powertransmission #electricalpower #distrubition #service #city #urbanisation #extremeweather #model #modeling #parameters #factors #energycrisis #energy #urbanplanning #routing #outages #framework #UrbanPS #bigdata #AI #machinelearning #Pingxiang #Jiangxi #China #casestudy #coverage #utilisation #dynamic #load #loading #loadbalancing

Labor share and market power in European firms https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:123442&r=&r=lma
"firms’ product and labor market power, as reflected in product markups and labor markdowns, enable firms to capture a larger share of economic output at the expense of workers.
… empirical analysis shows that markdowns are negative correlated with labor share, as firms reduce employment and suppress #wages below the marginal revenue of labor.
Product markups exhibit a dual effect: they can positively influence the labor share by increasing wages and employment when firms reinvest additional profits into production expansion. … markups indirectly reduce the labor share due to their positive link with labor markdowns. Firms with significant pricing power often suppress wages and limit hiring, diminishing the labor share.
… empirical results reveal the presence of a hump-shaped relationship between product markups and labor share. Initially, as product markups increase, the labor share rises, but this trend reverses when markups reach high levels. This nonlinearity underscores the dual nature of markups: while moderate markups have a direct positive effect on labor share, mitigating labor markdowns, high markups enable firms to exert substantial #monopsony power, diminishing the labor share.
The analysis reveals significant cross-country #heterogeneity in the effects of markups and markdowns on the labor share."
#IndustrialOrganization #LaborMarkets

Minimum Wages in Concentrated #LaborMarkets https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp17357&r=&r=lma
"Labor Market concentration turns out substantial in Germany …higher concentration reduces #wages & employment, reflecting monopsonistic conduct of firms. Sectoral minimum wages lead to negative employment effects in more competitive labor markets
…empirical support to the #monopsony argument, implying that conventional minimum wage effects on employment conceal #heterogeneity across market forms

Now ahead of print for Amarasekare's VP Symposium: "Defense Heterogeneity in Host Populations Gives Rise to Pathogen Diversity" by Hoang et al. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/731996

@matti, Niall Bolger, & @mjskay
suggest practical guidelines for discussing & visualizing #heterogeneity in a new working paper: https://mvuorre.github.io/heterogeneity-uncertainty/
#dataviz

Incorporating Conditional #Morality into Economic Decisions https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tut:cremwp:2024-04&r=&r=exp
"…a moral standard may be a moral imperative, or may be derived from social influences including #mimicry or #fairness considerations resulting from others’ behavior …
Additional #heterogeneity stems from the fact that one’s moral obligation may be either unconditional, or malleable and subject to the influence of others’ behavior."
#BoundedRationality

New theme issue of #PhilosophicalTransactionsLondonB on "The power of #sound: unravelling how #acoustic #communication shapes #group #dynamics"

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2024/379/1905

Including our paper on "#Individual and #ecological #heterogeneity promote #complex communication in social vertebrate group #decisions"

"We propose that complex communication has evolved to facilitate decision-making in specific socio-ecological contexts"

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/H6URMM937ID58UWVISF9/full

Now available Ahead of Print! "Population Dynamic Consequences of Context-Dependent Trade-Offs across Life Histories" by Louis Bliard, Maria Paniw, Dylan Z. Childs, and Arpat Ozgul: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/730111

Great talk by Ben Raphael (CS, Princeton) about cancer #evolution #heterogeneity #space and #time

This week @mathonco will be hosting Ben Raphael (CS, #Princeton) and I am looking forward talking to him about cancer evolution and heterogeneity and his seminar on Thursday at noon EST entitled: Quantifying Tumor #Heterogeneity Across Space and Time
https://moffitt.zoom.us/j/91265406655

Heterogeneity in Effect Size Estimates: Empirical Evidence and Practical Implications http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:i4rdps:102&r=exp
"…suggest that population heterogeneity tends to be relatively small, whereas design and analytical heterogeneity are large. … incorporating the #uncertainty due to #heterogeneity would approximately double sample standard errors and confidence intervals."
#ExperimentalEcon #statistics

Are you interested in cell #heterogeneity ? Would you like to work on understanding how single, heterogeneous cells work together to generate coordinated population responses using a mix of bioinformatics, wet-lab experiments and mathematical modelling?

Then come and do a PhD with us in sunny* Edinburgh!

https://www.ed.ac.uk/biomedical-sciences/postgraduate-studying/fully-funded-4-year-phd-studentships-in-biomedical

This PhD programme will also enable you to develop your #teaching skills by participating in teaching activities at our joint institute in Haining, China to eventually work towards a fellowship from the Higher Education Academy!

Any questions just drop me a message and I'll be happy to clarify any doubts!

*well, today at least

via @michaelkirchler:
Heterogeneity in effect size estimates: Empirical evidence and practical implications
https://osf.io/download/q83e9/
https://osf.io/yegsx/

…provides a framework for studying types of #heterogeneity in the #socialSciences
…results suggest that population heterogeneity is relatively small, whereas design and analytical heterogeneity are large.

New paper! "Assessing pore network #heterogeneity across multiple scales to inform #CO2
injection models"

We looked at properties, fractal dimension, and Lorenz coefficients across spatial scales.

> The data used in this study included advanced image analysis
of micro-CT (computed tomography) images (pore scale), thin sections (pore scale), plugs and core images (core
scale) and well logs (well scale).

Here's a free link: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1i8gb6E2M2-wSF #newPaper #CO2storage #geology

The Fundamental Properties, Stability & Predictive Power of Distributional Preferences
https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/237825/1/econwp439.pdf

There are 3 types: "The parsimony-precision frontier displays strongly decreasing precision gains from sacrificing parsimony by allowing more behavioral clusters, & has a salient kink at 3 behavioral types—indicating small precision gains from more clusters & large precision losses from less than 3 clusters."
#Selfish
#Altruism #InequalityAversion
#Heterogeneity
#BehavioralEconomics

Working More for Less: Part-time Penalties Across the Working Hours Distribution
https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/5074/file/BSE_DP_0025.pdf

"Working part-time with low hours (≤ 16h) implies the largest penalties, but we also find that working large part-time hours (> 24 to ≤ 34h) can carry higher penalties than medium part-time (> 16 to ≤ 24h)

…part-time jobs with near full-time weekly hours are not close substitutes to full-time jobs."
#wages #LaborEconomics #heterogeneity #Discrimination