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Beblo, Miriam
, Beninger, Denis, Cochard, François, Couprie, Hélène and Hopfensitz, Astrid
(2012)
Equality-Efficiency Trade-off within French and German Couples – A Comparative Experimental Study.
TSE Working Paper, n. 12-374
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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.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
|---|---|
| Language: | English |
| Date: | November 2012 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Intra-household allocation, Inequality aversion, Pareto efficiency, social norms |
| JEL Classification: | C71 - Cooperative Games C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior C92 - Laboratory, Group Behavior D13 - Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation |
| Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
| Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
| Site: | UT1 |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jul 2014 17:32 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Apr 2024 11:50 |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:26759 |
| URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/15500 |
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