Preferences over income distribution : Evidence from a choice experiment

Cetre, Sophie; Lobeck, Max; Senik, Claudia; Verdier, Thierry

Preferences over income distribution : Evidence from a choice experiment

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2019

Autor:innen

Cetre, Sophie

Lobeck, Max

Senik, Claudia

Verdier, Thierry

DOI (zitierfähiger Link)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2019.102202

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Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Exzellenzcluster "Die politische Dimension von Ungleichheit"

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Journal of Economic Psychology. Elsevier. 2019, 74, 102202. ISSN 0167-4870. eISSN 1872-7719. Available under: doi: 10.1016/j.joep.2019.102202

Zusammenfassung

Using a choice experiment in the lab, we assess the relative importance of different attitudes to income inequality. We elicit subjects’ preferences regarding pairs of payoff distributions within small groups, in a firm-like setting. We find that distributions that satisfy the Pareto-dominance criterion attract unanimous suffrage: all subjects prefer larger inequality provided it makes everyone weakly better off. This is true no matter whether payoffs are based on merit or luck. Unanimity only breaks once subjects’ positions within the income distribution are fixed and known ex-ante. Even then, 75% of subjects prefer Pareto-dominant distributions, but 25% of subjects engage in money burning at the top in order to reduce inequality, even when it does not make anyone better off. A majority of subjects embrace a more equal distribution if their own income or overall efficiency is not at stake. When their own income is at stake and the sum of payoffs remains unaffected, 20% of subjects are willing to pay for a lower degree of inequality.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

330 Wirtschaft

Schlagwörter

Distributive preferences, Inequality, Choice experiment, Luck versus, Merit, Rawls

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CETRE, Sophie, Max LOBECK, Claudia SENIK, Thierry VERDIER, 2019. Preferences over income distribution : Evidence from a choice experiment. In: Journal of Economic Psychology. Elsevier. 2019, 74, 102202. ISSN 0167-4870. eISSN 1872-7719. Available under: doi: 10.1016/j.joep.2019.102202

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@article{Cetre2019Prefe-56688,
  year={2019},
  doi={10.1016/j.joep.2019.102202},
  title={Preferences over income distribution : Evidence from a choice experiment},
  volume={74},
  issn={0167-4870},
  journal={Journal of Economic Psychology},
  author={Cetre, Sophie and Lobeck, Max and Senik, Claudia and Verdier, Thierry},
  note={Article Number: 102202}
}

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