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| Title: | Searching by questionaire for the meaning of income inequality |
| Author(s): | Ballano, Carlos
Ruiz-Castillo, Javier [jrc] |
| Publisher: | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía |
| Issued date: | Dec-1992 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10016/2889 |
| Abstract: | Amien and Cowell (1992) have recently performed an experimental test by questionnaire to investigate whether a sample of individuals corroborate the general consensus found in the literature about a number of axioms on the meaning of 'inequality'. They obtained some mixed results. In this article we report on a replica of the experiment with some novelties: we introudce the role of political attitudes toward income redistribution to clarify the interpretation of some results; the questionnaire is enlarged in an attempt to give more room to notions of inequality imtermediate between the relative and absolute polar cases; and we provide a systematic treatment of the degree of consistency exhibited by the respondents. |
| Serie / Nº.: | UC3M Working Papers. Economics
1992-18 |
| Other version: | http://hdl.handle.net/10016/4773 |
| Keywords: | Inequality
Experimental economics |
| Appears in Collections: | DE - Working Papers. Economics. WE
Economists Online
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