Equity and individual preferences in an MDG

Wilke, Henk; Liebrand, Wim B. G.; Lotgerink, B.; Buurma, B.

doi:10.1002/ejsp.2420160203

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“…When people know about an asymmetry, equity appears to become a preferred distributive principle (Messick and Schell, 1992;Van Dijk and Grodzka, 1992;Wilke et aL, 1986). An important proviso is that the asymmetry is regarded as fair (Messick and Schell, 1992;Van Dijk and Wilke, 1993).…”

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Distributive justice and willingness to pay for municipality child care

1997

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With the aim of investigating factors affecting willingness to pay for municipality child care, a survey was undertaken in Sweden of 1840 parents living in five municipalities of different sizes. On the basis of the greed.efficiency-fairness hypothesis (WUke, 1991) which is supported by results from experimental social dilemma research, it was hypothesized that perceived fairness of how the quality of child care is distributed (equa~ proportional to need, or proportional to paymenO as well as of method of payment (collectiveby by taxes or proportional to use by fees) would be important determinants of willingness to pay. Results showed that perceived fairness of how quality of child care is distributed played some role but that other factors had stronger effects. Perhaps also reflecting fairness considerations, willingness to pay by fees was on average higher than willingness to pay by taxes. Predicted from previous research, willingness to pay by taxes was furthermore found to increase with income and degree of use. However, willingness to pay by taxes showed an increase rather than the predicted decrease with municipality size.

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