Measuring tastes for equity and aggregate wealth behind the veil of ignorance

IF 1 3区经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS

Games and Economic Behavior Pub Date : 2025-06-19 DOI:10.1016/j.geb.2025.06.005

Jan Heufer , Jason Shachat , Yan Xu

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Abstract

We propose an instrument to measure individuals' social preferences regarding equity and efficiency behind a veil of ignorance while controlling for idiosyncratic risk preferences. We construct a battery of portfolio and wealth distribution choice problems sharing a common budget set. A given bundle induces the same distribution over an individual's wealth in both problems. The portfolio choice solely reflects an individual's risk attitude, providing a benchmark to evaluate whether their wealth distribution choice exhibits equity or efficiency preferring tastes. Our experiments show clusters of social preference types, which are unexpectedly independent of risk preferences.

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Games and Economic Behavior ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

1.90

自引率

9.10%

发文量

148

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