The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens' preferences for income redistribution. They are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its uses (the unemployed, old-age pensioners, people...

In this paper, we elicit preferences of Swiss citizens for the allocation of income redistribution to different uses through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008. Neustadt and Zweifel (2009} provide an estimate of the total desired amount of income redistribution as a share of...

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In this paper, we elicit preferences for the allocation of income redistribution to different uses through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed with a representative sample of Swiss citizens. The total desired amount of income redistribution is estimated as a share of disposable income....

We elicit preferences for the allocation of public budget to groups of recipients through a discrete choice experiment performed with a representative sample of Swiss citizens. The total desired amount of income redistribution as a share of GDP and its allocation across groups of recipients are...

The objective of this paper is to measure preferences for income redistribution through the public budget when recipients differ in terms of their 'degree of merit' (such as the working poor) and their nationalities. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was performed involving a representative...

Background: Preferences of both Alzheimer patients and their spouse caregivers are related to a willingness-to-pay (WTP) measure which is used to test for the presence of mutual (rather than conventional unilateral) altruism. Methods: Contingent valuation experiments were conducted in 2000 –...