Revealed distributional preferences: Individuals vs. teams

Loukas Balafoutas, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Martin Kocher and Matthias Sutter

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, vol. 108, issue C, 319-330

Abstract: We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is similar across decision makers. A consequence for the frequency of preference types is that while a substantial fraction of individuals is classified as inequality averse, this type disappears completely in teams. Spiteful types are markedly more frequent among individuals than among teams. On the other hand, by far more teams than individuals are classified as efficiency lovers.

Keywords: Distributional preferences; Social preferences; Team decisions; Individual decisions; Stability of preferences; Behavioral economics; Experimental economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 C92 D03 D63 D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2013.12.012

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