The geometry of distributional preferences and a non-parametric identification approach

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This paper proposes a geometric delineation of distributional preference types and a non-parametric approach for their identification in a two-person context. It starts with a small set of assumptions on preferences and shows that this set (i) naturally results in a taxonomy of distributional archetypes that nests all empirically relevant types considered in previous work in economics and social psychology; and (ii) gives rise to a clean experimental test design that discriminates between archetypes according to core features of preferences rather than properties of specific modelling variants. As a by-product the test yields a two-dimensional index of preference intensity.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Papers in Economics and Statistics ; No. 2013-25

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Design of Experiments: General ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers ; Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access ; Economic Methodology
• Subject: Distributional preferences ; social preferences ; other-regarding preferences ; social value orientations ; behavioral economics ; experimental economics

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kerschbamer, Rudolf
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon)
• (where): Innsbruck
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/101108
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET