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

Arbeitspapier

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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

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

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: 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
• Thema: Distributional preferences ; social preferences ; other-regarding preferences ; social value orientations ; behavioral economics ; experimental economics

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Kerschbamer, Rudolf
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon)
• (wo): Innsbruck
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/101108
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ