Consequential egalitarianism vs. accountability principle: an experimental investigation

Zhicheng Xu and Marco Palma ()

Applied Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 23, issue 8, 562-565

Abstract: We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate how people’s fairness views and redistribution depend on different rooted risks, specifically whether the risk is exogenously assigned in a ‘pure-luck’ control assignment or endogenously chosen by subjects in an ‘option-luck’ treatment. This experiment examines two contradictory views about distributive justice, namely consequential egalitarianism and the accountability principle (AP). The results show widespread support for the view of AP when participants have the opportunity to alleviate the risks.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1088134

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