Perceptions of Equity across Cultures and over Time: A Questionnaire-Experimental Approach

Wulf Gaertner, Reinhard Neck () and Lars Schwettmann

International Advances in Economic Research, 2011, vol. 17, issue 1, 11 pages

Abstract: We discuss the results of investigations where students from several countries were confronted with questionnaires describing hypothetical situations. All situations start from the preference structure which underlies an equity axiom based on Rawls’s difference principle. We ask whether respondents satisfy the equity axiom by supporting the worst-offs and how often they revise their initial decision when more people join the side of the more advantaged. Moreover, we control for context-dependency and investigate whether there are major differences across countries and cultures. The available data also allow us to consider changes of justice evaluations over time. Copyright International Atlantic Economic Society 2011

Keywords: Social choice; Welfare economics; Equity; Justice; Experimental economics; Questionnaire; D63; D64; D71; I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/s11294-010-9287-7

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