Inequality aversion, efficiency, and maximin preferences in simple distribution experiments: Comment

By Ernst Fehr, Michael Naef, Klaus M. Schmidt. 2006

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Egalitarianism and Competitiveness (2009, neutral): “…Zürich Phone: +41 44 634 37 09 Fax: +41 44 634 49 07 Email: efehr@iew.uzh.ch Michel André Maréchal Bluemlisalpstrasse 10, CH-8006 Zürich Phone: +41 44 634 51 91 Email: marechal@iew.uzh.ch Daniel Schunk Bluemlisalpstrasse 10, CH-8006 Zürich Phone: +41 44 634 37 04 Email: dschunk@iew.uzh.ch”
Social Preferences in the Lab: A Comparison of Students and a Representative Population (2015, positive): “Fehr et al. (2006) argue that equality is more important in strategic games than in non-strategic games, but underline that better understanding of the functioning of different motivational forces in different environments is needed.”
The strategy versus the direct-response method: a first survey of experimental comparisons (2011, neutral): “…and Rey-Biel (2008) test whether people make different dictator choices when they know if they will be the dictator and when they don’t know before making their choices (making comparisons with the same games with role uncertainty in Charness and Grosskopf 2001 and in Engelmann and Strobel 2004).”
Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence (2014, methodology): “The experiment conducted in Engelmann and Strobel (2000) is designed to compare the performance of these two models: their results suggest that the formulation proposed by Fehr and Schmidt performs better than the ERC.”
Stochastic Choice and Preferences for Randomization (2017, methodology): “We used the exact same amounts as in Bolton and Ockenfels (2006), except we used US dollars instead of deutsche marks.”
Chapter 8 The Economics of Fairness, Reciprocity and Altruism – Experimental Evidence and New Theories (2006, background): “More recently, Engelmann and Strobel (2004) argued that “efficiency” is an important motive that clearly dominates the desire for equality in 3 player dictator games.”
Enforcement of contribution norms in public good games with heterogeneous populations (2009, neutral): “…and behaviorally important The ﬁrst dimension relates to the maximization of collective welfare (for evidence see, Charness and Rabin, 2002; Engelmann and Strobel, 2004), which can be thought of as an eﬃciency rule that prescribes that one ought to contribute as much as possible to the…”
On the Economics and Biology of Trust (2009, background): “There is evidence that a special form of altruistic preferences—the surplus-maximization motive—plays a role in certain circumstances (Charness and Rabin 2002; Engelmann and Strobel 2004; Fehr, Naef, and Schmidt 2006).”
A within-subject analysis of other-regarding preferences (2011, background): “Therefore, our results suggest that the inequality-aversion model of Fehr and Schmidt (1999) can serve as an elegant “as if” model in several situations one at a time, but it does not appear to accurately and consistently reflect the preferences of individuals.”
Responsibility for what? Fairness and individual responsibility (2010, background): “…a related literature discussing how education affects a person’s view of the trade-off between equality and efficiency (Engelmann and Strobel, 2006; Fehr et al., 2006).2 These studies do not, however, discuss in detail how such institutions might affect what people consider fair.3 But it seems…”
Fairness and the Optimal Allocation of Ownership Rights (2008, methodology): “Journal compilation Royal Economic Society 2008 order to show the existence of inequity averse individuals simpler experiments such as those in Charness and Rabin (2002), Falk et al. (2003), Engelmann and Strobl (2004), or Fehr et al. (2006) are needed.”
How did distributional preferences change during the Great Recession (2015, background): “See Levine (1998), Charness and Rabin (2002), Bolton and Ockenfels (2006), Cappelen, Hole, Sorensen and Tungodden (2007), and Bellemare, Kröger and van Soest (2008) for alternative formulations of other-regarding utility functions.”