Equality-Efficiency Trade-off within French and German Couples - A Comparative Experimental Study

Konferenzbeitrag

We present the results of an experiment that measures social preferences within couples in a context where intra-household pay-off inequality can be reduced at the cost of diminishing household income. We measure social norms regarding this efficiency-equality trade-off and implement a cross-country comparison between France and Germany. In particular, we show that German households are more inequality averse and are thus less efficient than French households. A decomposition of this difference reveals that approximately 40% is driven by diverging sample compositions in the two countries, while 60% of the initial French/German difference remains unexplained. Beliefs differ significantly from observed behavior in both countries. Efficient choices are overestimated in the German sample and underestimated in the French.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2013: Wettbewerbspolitik und Regulierung in einer globalen Wirtschaftsordnung - Session: Experiments on Gender Differences ; No. G05-V1

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Beblo, Miriam ; Beninger, Denis ; Cochard, Francois ; Couprie, Helene ; Hopfensitz, Astrid
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
• (where): Kiel und Hamburg
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/79759
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET