We review the vast literature on social preferences by assessing what is known about their fundamental properties, their distribution in the broader population, and their consequences for important economic and political behaviors. We provide, in particular, an overview of the empirically...

When preferences are single-peaked (Black (1948),Black et al. (1958)) or group separable Ballester and Haeringer (2011), majority voting equilibria exist. Group separability has probably not received as much attention as single-peak separability because there are no intuitive assumptions about...

We report on a comprehensive measurement of risk attitude in a social context and inequality attitudes in a risky context, for both gains and losses, in a large representative population sample. These measurements are of theoretical and practical importance in welfare economics and policy. We...