eprintid: 16509 rev_number: 21 eprint_status: archive userid: 1482 importid: 105 dir: disk0/00/01/65/09 datestamp: 2015-03-16 14:45:31 lastmod: 2024-04-18 11:33:39 status_changed: 2017-06-20 14:43:36 type: article succeeds: 15500 metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Beblo, Miriam creators_name: Beninger, Denis creators_name: Cochard, François creators_name: Couprie, Hélène creators_name: Hopfensitz, Astrid creators_idrefppn: 059548843 creators_idrefppn: 076129179 creators_idrefppn: 078384303 creators_idrefppn: 176187804 creators_affiliation: University of Hamburg creators_affiliation: University of Hamburg creators_affiliation: Université de Franche Comté creators_affiliation: University of Cergy-Pontoise creators_affiliation: Toulouse School of Economics; UT1 Capitole title: Efficiency-Equality Trade-off within French and German Couples – A Comparative Experimental Study ispublished: pub subjects: subjects_ECO abstract: 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 date_type: published id_number: 10.15609/annaeconstat2009.117-118.233 official_url: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/28025 faculty: tse divisions: tse language: en has_fulltext: FALSE view_date_year: 2015 full_text_status: none publication: Annales d'Économie et de Statistique number: 117-118 pagerange: 233-252 refereed: TRUE issn: 0769-489X oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:28025 harvester_local_overwrite: oai_set harvester_local_overwrite: number harvester_local_overwrite: faculty harvester_local_overwrite: issn harvester_local_overwrite: site harvester_local_overwrite: publication harvester_local_overwrite: id_number harvester_local_overwrite: pending harvester_local_overwrite: creators_affiliation harvester_local_overwrite: creators_idrefppn oai_lastmod: 2024-04-17T13:41:26Z oai_set: tse oai_set: ut1c site: ut1 citation: 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.