Durante, Ruben; Putterman, Louis G.; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2013
We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how demand for redistribution of income depends on self-interest, insurance … motives, and social concerns relating to inequality and efficiency. Our choice environments feature large groups of subjects … and real world framing, and differ with respect to the source of inequality (earned or arbitrary), the cost of taxation to …