Equity vs. efficiency vs. self-interest: On the use of dictator games to measure distributional preferences

Experimental Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 208-221

  Jakiela, Pamela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Equity efficiency tradeoffs; Experiments; Social preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876924948     PISSN: 13864157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10683-012-9332-x     Document Type: Article

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