Arbeitspapier
Risk and Inequality in a Social Decision Making Experiment
As societies are increasingly concerned with social risks, it is important to evaluate risks not only from an individual perspective, but also from a societal one. Many increases in social risk involve a simultaneous increase in risk and inequality. This paper presents an experiment which disentangles concerns for risk and inequality in a social risk context. Subjects choose between different types of allocations of risks over 10 other participants. The allocations differ only in terms of dispersion. We disentangle four types of dispersion: ex ante inequality, ex post inequality, individual risk, and collective risk. The results show that people are averse towards ex ante inequality and individual risk, whereas they are ex post inequality and collective risk seeking.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 12-045/1
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- Thema
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inequality
risk
experiment
Risikopräferenz
Entscheidung bei Risiko
Soziale Beziehungen
Test
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Rohde, Ingrid M.T.
Rohde, Kirsten I.M.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- (wann)
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2012
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Rohde, Ingrid M.T.
- Rohde, Kirsten I.M.
- Tinbergen Institute
Entstanden
- 2012