Measuring Inequality Attitudes by Defective Leaky Buckets A Comment

Amiel et al. (1999) use the Atkinson and the Gini social welfare functions to measure income inequality attitudes based on data from leaky-bucket experiments. Yet the experimental de-sign does not allow their subjects to perceive income inequality according to the Gini or the Atkinson inequality measures. Moreover, their experimental design tries to measure inequal-ity aversion by forcing their subjects to behave in accordance with inequality predilection.

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Year of publication:	2003
Authors:	Seidl, Christian
Institutions:	Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
Subject:	Inequality aversion \| leaky-bucket experiment

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Economics Working Papers. - ISSN 2193-2476.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 2003,16
Classification:	C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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