TY  - JOUR
ID  - publications16509
UR  - http://tse-fr.eu/pub/28025
IS  - 117-118
A1  - Beblo, Miriam
A1  - Beninger, Denis
A1  - Cochard, François
A1  - Couprie, Hélène
A1  - Hopfensitz, Astrid
Y1  - 2015/06//
N2  - 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.
JF  - Annales d'Économie et de Statistique
SN  - 0769-489X
TI  - Efficiency-Equality Trade-off within French and German Couples – A Comparative Experimental Study
SP  - 233
AV  - none
EP  - 252
ER  -