Searching by questionaire for the meaning of income inequality

Carlos Ballano
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Javier Ruiz-Castillo

UC3M Working papers. Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía

Abstract: Amien and Cowell (1992) have recently performed an experimental test by questionnaire to investigate whether a sample of individuals corroborate the general consensus found in the literature about a number of axioms on the meaning of 'inequality'. They obtained some mixed results. In this article we report on a replica of the experiment with some novelties: we introudce the role of political attitudes toward income redistribution to clarify the interpretation of some results; the questionnaire is enlarged in an attempt to give more room to notions of inequality imtermediate between the relative and absolute polar cases; and we provide a systematic treatment of the degree of consistency exhibited by the respondents.

Keywords: Inequality; Experimental; economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992-12
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