Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/110183 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8954
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper reports data from three subject pools (n=717 subjects) using techniques based on those of Loewenstein, et al. (1989) and Blanco, et al. (2011) to obtain parameters, respectively, of stated and revealed inequality aversion. We provide a replication opportunity for those papers, with two innovations: (i) a design which allows stated and revealed preferences to be compared at the individual level; (ii) assessment of robustness of findings across subjects from a UK university, a Turkish university and Amazon Mechanical Turk. Our findings on stated aversion to inequality are qualitatively similar to those of Loewenstein, et al. in each of our subject pools, whereas there are notable differences between some of our findings on revealed preference and those of Blanco, et al. We find that revealed advantageous inequality aversion is often stronger than revealed dis-advantageous inequality aversion. In most subject pools, we find some (weak) correlation between corresponding parameters of stated and revealed inequality aversion.
Subjects: 
inequality aversion
replication
revealed and stated preferences
robustness across subject pools
MTurk
JEL: 
C90
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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