Preferences over income distribution: Evidence from a choice experiment

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

doi:10.1016/j.joep.2019.102202

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“…However, also in this case, inequity aversion did not coincide with objective equality. Cetre, Lobeck, Senik and Verdier (2019) conducted an experiment in which participants had to choose between two projects that brought different monetary payoffs. They found that females were less likely to choose the high inequality but efficient project, compared to men, but only when they had to choose under the veil of ignorance.…”

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Gender differences in the trade-off between objective equality and efficiency

Capraro¹

2020

Judgm. decis. mak.

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Generations of social scientists have explored whether males and females act differently in domains involving competition, risk taking, cooperation, altruism, honesty, as well as many others. Yet, little is known about gender differences in the trade-off between objective equality (i.e., equality of outcomes) and efficiency. It has been suggested that females are more equal than males, but the empirical evidence is relatively weak. This gap is particularly important, because people in power of redistributing resources often face a conflict between equality and efficiency. The recently introduced Trade-Off Game (TOG) – in which a decision-maker has to unilaterally choose between being equal or being efficient – offers a unique opportunity to fill this gap. To this end, I analyse gender differences on a large dataset including N=6,955 TOG decisions. The results show that females prefer objective equality over efficiency to a greater extent than males do. The effect turns out to be particularly strong when the TOG available options are “morally” framed in such a way to suggest that choosing the equal option is the right thing to do.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Gender differences in the trade-off between objective equality and efficiency

Capraro¹

2020

Judgm. decis. mak.

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“…Even if locus of control does not belong to the "big-five" personality traits, it turns out to be associated with neuroticism (Almlund et al, 2011). Locus of control is also related to the literature analyzing how perceptions about the determinants of a specific outcomeluck as opposed to merit -may affect preferences and behavior (Cappelen et al, 2013;Cetre et al, 2019).…”

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Locus of control and saving: The role of saving motives

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Trucchi

2021

Journal of Economic Psychology

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“…Among the existing limitations in choice research, there is also a frequent tendency to model a speculative construct, instead of direct investigation of the phenomenon. Thus, choice situations are often modelled in laboratory conditions (e.g., Cetre et al, 2019) or studied by discrete choice experiments (e.g., Byun & Lee, 2017) while real life choices are practically not investigated. In addition, the quality of choice usually appears as a category that can be evaluated by someone besides the chooser himself (e.g., by the experimenter), and the parameters of such evaluation are the following: efficiency, optimality, minimum losses, maximum gain, and speed.…”

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confidence: 99%