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Preferences over Income Distributions

Experimental Evidence

Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom

Martin Strobel

University of Maastricht, the Netherlands

Preferences over income distribution are the basis for a variety of models that aim at explaining results in economic experiments. The direct evidence concerning these preferences, however, is limited to a relatively small set of games. The authors discuss crucial evidence, including that from a recent large-scale Internet experiment and the different models' performance. It appears that subjects are highly heterogeneous and that the relative impact of different motives depends on a variety of factors. The authors present a general model that can help as a starting point for measuring distributional preferences.

Key Words: income distribution • Internet experiments • experimental economics • social preferences

Public Finance Review, Vol. 35, No. 2, 285-310 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1091142106294713


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