Inequality, Welfare and Income Distribution
Experimental Approaches
11th Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. July 2004
Book
Hardback
247 pages
978-0-7623-1113-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 individuals incorporate criteria of equality and fairness into their own decisions. This volume covers a wide range of topics in the field of income distribution and extends the approach to related issues such as mobility and attitudes to risk. The selection of papers includes both participatory experiments - where individuals respond to economic incentives - and questionnaire experiments designed to investigate the extent to which individuals' values and attitudes conform to the way that economists and others conventionally model inequality and welfare.
Reviews / Votes
Ten papers investigate topics relating to inequaltiy, welfare, and income distribution by using experimental methods-including participatory experiments and questionnaire experiments. Journal of Economic Literature, 2004More details
Series
Edition
11. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
586 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7623-1113-2 (9780762311132)
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Content
Why do people violate the transfer principle? Evidence from educational sample surveys (Y. Amiel, F. Cowell, D. Slottje). Efficiency, equity and democracy: Experimental evidence on Okun's Leaky Bucket (S.R. Beckman, J.P. Formby, W.J. Smith). How manipulable are fairness perceptions? The effect of additional alternatives (Y. Bereby-Meyer, B. Grosskopf). An experimental analysis of social mobility comparison (M. Bernasconi, V. Dardanoni). Social welfare, the veil of ignorance and purely individual risk: An empirical examination (K. Bosmans, E. Schokkaert). An experimental study of the POUM hypothesis (D. Checchi, A. Filippin). On the attitude towards inequality (L. Davidovitz, Y. Kroll). Approaching fair behavior: Distributional and reciprocal preferences (A. Kritikos, F. Bolle). Fairness-based altruism and redistribution: An experimental approach (L. Mittone). Inequality and procedural fairness in a money-burning experiment (D. Zizzo).