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Fehr, Ernst; Näf, Michael und Schmidt, Klaus M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5011-0828 (Februar 2005): The Role of Equality and Equity in Social Preferences. Münchener Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Beiträge (VWL) 2005-19 [PDF, 139kB]

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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.

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