Preferences for Giving Versus Preferences for Redistribution

In-Group Bias in Preferences for Redistribution: A Survey Experiment in Italy

“…Despite the failure of finding evidence of treatment effects on the propensity to donate, we do not believe this should be necessarily interpreted as a stated preferences being a cheap talk. A recent work by Mollerstrom, Strulov-Shlain and Taubinsky (2021) shows that preferences for voluntary giving match preferences for redistribution only in very specific cases. E.2 Sample excluding respondents who think the survey was biased -…”

Fairness and Inequality in Institution Formation

“…The absence of group-size effects on the individual willingness to implement institutions in the presence of single (or few) free-riders also has implications for the literature on how many so-called "bad apples" are tolerated in society (de Oliveira, Croson and Eckel, 2015;Guido, Robbett and Romaniuc, 2019) and the influence of group size on social preferences (Schumacher et al, 2017;Mollerstrom, Strulov-Shlain and Taubinsky, 2021;Alós-Ferrer, García-Segarra and Ritschel, 2022). Our findings indicate that the share of tolerated bad apples (i.e., players who do not want to commit themselves) is not sensitive to small increases in group size.…”