Inequality, welfare and income distribution: Experimental approaches

258 Pages·2004·1.263 MB·English

by  Cowell F. (ed.)

RESEARCHONECONOMICINEQUALITY VOLUME11
INEQUALITY, WELFARE
AND INCOME
DISTRIBUTION:
EXPERIMENTAL
APPROACHES
EDITEDBY
FRANK COWELL
2004
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INEQUALITY, WELFARE AND
INCOME DISTRIBUTION:
EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES
RESEARCH ON ECONOMIC
INEQUALITY
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CONTENTS
LISTOFCONTRIBUTORS vii
PREFACE ix
WHYDOPEOPLEVIOLATETHETRANSFERPRINCIPLE?
EVIDENCEFROMEDUCATIONALSAMPLESURVEYS
YoramAmiel,FrankCowellandDanSlottje 1
EFFICIENCY,EQUITYANDDEMOCRACY:
EXPERIMENTALEVIDENCEONOKUN’SLEAKYBUCKET
StevenR.Beckman,JohnP.FormbyandW.JamesSmith 17
HOWMANIPULABLEAREFAIRNESSPERCEPTIONS?THE
EFFECTOFADDITIONALALTERNATIVES
YoellaBereby-MeyerandBritGrosskopf 43
ANEXPERIMENTALANALYSISOFSOCIALMOBILITY
COMPARISONS
MicheleBernasconiandValentinoDardanoni 55
SOCIALWELFARE,THEVEILOFIGNORANCEAND
PURELYINDIVIDUALRISK:ANEMPIRICAL
EXAMINATION
KristofBosmansandErikSchokkaert 85
ANEXPERIMENTALSTUDYOFTHEPOUMHYPOTHESIS
DanieleChecchiandAntonioFilippin 115
v
vi
ONTHEATTITUDETOWARDSINEQUALITY
LiemaDavidovitzandYoramKroll 137
APPROACHINGFAIRBEHAVIOR:DISTRIBUTIONALAND
RECIPROCALPREFERENCES
AlexanderKritikosandFriedelBolle 149
FAIRNESS-BASEDALTRUISMANDREDISTRIBUTION:AN
EXPERIMENTALAPPROACH
LuigiMittone 181
INEQUALITYANDPROCEDURALFAIRNESSINA
MONEY-BURNINGANDSTEALINGEXPERIMENT
DanielJohnZizzo 215
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
YoramAmiel DepartmentofEconomicsandManagement,
RuppinInstitute,Emek-Hefer,Israel
StevenR.Beckman UniversityofColoradoatDenver,Denver,CO,
USA
YoellaBereby-Meyer DepartmentofEducation,BenGurionUniversity
oftheNegev,BeerSheva,Israel
MicheleBernasconi DipartimentodiEconomia,Universita`
dell’Insubria,Varese,Italy
FriedelBolle DepartmentofEconomics,Europa-Universita¨t
Viadrina,Frankfurt(Oder),Germany
KristofBosmans KatholiekeUniversiteitLeuven,Leuven,Belgium
DanieleChecchi UniversityofMilan,Milan,Italy
FrankCowell STICERDandEconomicsDepartment,London
SchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience,
London,U.K.
ValentinoDardanoni DipartimentodiScienzeEconomiche,Aziendalie
Finanziarie,Universita` diPalermo,Palermo,Italy
LiemaDavidovitz DepartmentofEconomicsandManagement,
RuppinInstitute,Emek-Hefer,Israel
AntonioFilippin EUI,Florence,Italy
JohnP.Formby DepartmentofEconomics,FinanceandLegal
Studies,UniversityofAlabama,Tuscaloosa,AL,
USA
BritGrosskopf DepartmentofEconomics,TexasA&M
University,CollegeStation,TX,USA
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viii
AlexanderKritikos DepartmentofEconomics,Europa-Universita¨t
Viadrina,Frankfurt(Oder),Germany
YoramKroll SchoolofBusiness,HebrewUniversity,Jerusalem,
Israel
LuigiMittone ComputableandExperimentalEconomics
Laboratory,DepartmentofEconomics,University
ofTrento,Trento,Italy
ErikSchokkaert KatholiekeUniversiteitLeuven,Leuven,Belgium
W.JamesSmith UniversityofColoradoatDenver,Denver,CO,
USA
DanSlottje EconomicsDepartment,SouthernMethodist
University,Dallas,TX,USA
DanielZizzo ChristChurchCollege,UniversityofOxford,
Oxford,U.K.
PREFACE
The emerging literature on experimental methods in connection with economic
inequality has shed fresh light on how to think about inequality, how important
issues of equality are in comparison with other economic objectives and how
individualsincorporatecriteriaofequalityandfairnessintotheirowndecisions.
This special issue covers a wide range of topics in the field of income
distribution and extends the approach to related issues such as mobility and
attitudestorisk.Theselectionofpapersincludesbothparticipatoryexperiments
whereindividualsrespondtoeconomicincentivesandquestionnaireexperiments
designed to investigate the extent to which individuals’ values and attitudes
conform to the way that economists and others conventionally model inequality
andwelfare.Thecontributionsappearbyalphabeticalorderofauthor.Allpapers
wererefereedintheusualway.Ihavebeengreatlyassistedbyadvicefrom:
StevenBeckman AstriMuren
JordiBrandts AdamOliver
GuillermoCruces MatthewRabin
KurtDevooght XaviRamos
UrsFischbacher JavierRuiz-Castillo
JohnFormby ErikSchokkaert
UriGneezy MartinSefton
HansGru¨ner MichaelTagler
HeikeHennigSchmidt RichardWahlund
JamesKonow PaulWebley
ShlomoMaital GeorgeWu
SarahMaxwell RamiZwick
FrankCowell
VolumeEditor
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