Revealed distributional preferences: Individuals vs. teams()()

We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is similar...

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Autores principales: Balafoutas, Loukas, Kerschbamer, Rudolf, Kocher, Martin, Sutter, Matthias
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Publicado: North-Holland Pub. Co 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4375946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25843995
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2013.12.012
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Kerschbamer, Rudolf
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description We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is similar across decision makers. A consequence for the frequency of preference types is that while a substantial fraction of individuals is classified as inequality averse, this type disappears completely in teams. Spiteful types are markedly more frequent among individuals than among teams. On the other hand, by far more teams than individuals are classified as efficiency lovers.
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spelling pubmed-43759462015-04-01 Revealed distributional preferences: Individuals vs. teams()() Balafoutas, Loukas Kerschbamer, Rudolf Kocher, Martin Sutter, Matthias J Econ Behav Organ Article We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is similar across decision makers. A consequence for the frequency of preference types is that while a substantial fraction of individuals is classified as inequality averse, this type disappears completely in teams. Spiteful types are markedly more frequent among individuals than among teams. On the other hand, by far more teams than individuals are classified as efficiency lovers. North-Holland Pub. Co 2014-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4375946/ /pubmed/25843995 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2013.12.012 Text en © 2013 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
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