relation: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/16509/ title: Efficiency-Equality Trade-off within French and German Couples – A Comparative Experimental Study creator: Beblo, Miriam creator: Beninger, Denis creator: Cochard, François creator: Couprie, Hélène creator: Hopfensitz, Astrid subject: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE description: We present the results of an experiment measuring social preferences within couples in a context where intra-household pay-off inequality can be reduced at the cost of diminishing household income. We measure social norms regarding this efficiency-equality trade-off and implement a cross-country comparison between France and Germany. In particular, we show that German households are more inequality averse and are thus less efficient than French households. A decomposition of this difference reveals that approximately 40% is driven by diverging sample compositions in the two countries, while 60% of the initial French/German difference remains unexplained. Beliefs differ significantly from observed behavior in both countries. Efficient choices are overestimated in the German sample and underestimated in the French. date: 2015-06 type: Article type: PeerReviewed identifier: Beblo, Miriam , Beninger, Denis , Cochard, François , Couprie, Hélène and Hopfensitz, Astrid (2015) Efficiency-Equality Trade-off within French and German Couples – A Comparative Experimental Study. Annales d'Économie et de Statistique (117-118). pp. 233-252. relation: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/28025 relation: 10.15609/annaeconstat2009.117-118.233 identifier: 10.15609/annaeconstat2009.117-118.233 doi: 10.15609/annaeconstat2009.117-118.233 language: en