The role of equality and equity in social preferences.

Autor/inn/en	Fehr, Ernst; Näf, Michael; Schmidt, Klaus M.
Institution	Universität (München). Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät
Titel	The role of equality and equity in social preferences. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die Rolle von Gleichheit und Gleichberechtigung bei gesellschaftlichen Bevorzugungen.
Quelle	München (2005), 10 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Münchener Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Beiträge. 2005-19
Beigaben	Tabellen 2
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
URN	urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-725-8
Schlagwörter	Soziale Ungleichheit; Leistungsfähigkeit; Gleichberechtigung; Experiment; Gleichheit; Politische Einstellung; Wirtschaftswissenschaft; Effizienz; Geschlechtsspezifik; Student
Abstract	"Engelmann and Strobel (AER 2004) question the relevance of inequity aversion in simple dictator game experiments claiming that a combination of a preference for efficiency and a Rawlsian motive for helping the least well-off is more important than inequity aversion. We show that these results are partly based on a strong subject pool effect. The participants of the E&S experiments were undergraduate students of economics and business administration who self-selected into their field of study (economics) and learned in the first semester that efficiency is desirable. We show that for non-economists the preference for efficiency is much less pronounced. We also find a non-negligible gender effect indicating that women are more egalitarian than men. However, perhaps surprisingly, the dominance of equality over efficiency is unrelated to political attitudes." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2008/1