Why do people violate the transfer principle? Evidence from educational sample surveys / Yoram Amiel, Frank Cowell, Dan Slottje -- An experimental study of the POUM hypothesis / Daniele Checchi, Antonio Filippin -- On the attitude towards inequality / Liema Davidovitz, Yoram Kroll -- Approaching fair behavior : distributional and reciprocal preferences / Alexander Kritikos, Friedel Bolle -- Efficiency, equity and democracy : experimental evidence on okun's leaky bucket / Steven R. Beckman, John P. Formby, W. James Smith -- Fairness-based altruism and redistribution : an experimental approach / Luigi Mittone -- Inequality and procedural fairness in a money-burning and stealing experiment / Daniel John Zizzo -- How manipulable are fairness perceptions? The effect of additional alternatives / Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Brit Grosskopf -- An experimental analysis of social mobility comparisons / Michele Bernasconi, Valentino Dardanoni -- Social welfare, the veil of ignorance and purely individual risk : an empirical examination / Kristof Bosmans, Erik Schokkaert -- Preface / Frank Cowell.

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.

Print version record