Inequality, welfare and income distribution : experimental approaches / edited by Frank Cowell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cowell, Frank A. (Frank Alan)

Series:

Research on economic inequality 1049-2085 ; v. 11.

Research on economic inequality, 1049-2085 ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution.

Welfare economics.

Physical Description:

ix, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier JAI, 2004.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Why do people violate the transfer principle? : evidence from educational sample surveys / Yoram Amiel, Frank Cowell and Dan Slottje

Efficiency, equity and democracy : experimental evidence on Okun's leaky bucket / Steven R. Beckman, John P. Formby and W. James Smith

How manipulable are fairness perceptions? : the effect of additional alternatives / Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Brit Grosskopf

An experimental analysis of social mobility comparisons / Michele Bernasconi and Valentino Dardanoni

Social welfare, the veil of ignorance, and purely individual risk : an empirical examination / Kristof Bosmans and Erik Schokkaert

An experimental study of the POUM hypothesis / Daniele Checchi and Antonio Flippin

On the attitude towards inequality / Liema Davidovitz and Yoram Kroll

Approaching fair behavior : distributional and reciprocal preferences / Alexander Kritikos and Friedel Bolle

Fairness-based altruism and redistribution : an experimental approach / Luigi Mittone

Inequality and procedural fairness in a money-burning and stealing experiment / Daniel John Zizzo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0762311134

OCLC:

56395135