Behavioural economics: Preserving rank as a social norm

Gary Charness and Marie Claire Villeval

Nature Human Behaviour, 2017, vol. 1, issue 8, 1-2

Abstract: Experiments show that people dislike inequality, but are they willing to overturn established hierarchies to achieve income equality? A cross-cultural experiment shows that from a young age humans exhibit rank reversal aversion when redistributing resources between the rich and the poor, suggesting that hierarchy preservation is a social norm.

Date: 2017
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