Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/208085 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 185
Publisher: 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition, München und Berlin
Abstract: 
We develop and implement a new measure for inequality aversion: two peers are endowed with identical binary lotteries and the only choice they make is whether they want to play out the lotteries independently or with perfect positive correlation (coupling). Coupling has no other e ect than preventing outcome inequality. We implement the method in a survey in rural Thailand as well as a supplemental sample in a lab in Germany. As theoretically expected, coupling is related to being more risk averse, to having social status concerns, and to relying more often on formal and informal insurance. However, coupling is not related to giving in the dictator game.
Subjects: 
Inequality aversion
Correlated risk
Social status concerns
JEL: 
D63
D91
D81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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