eprintid: 35947
rev_number: 18
eprint_status: archive
userid: 3114
dir: disk0/00/03/59/47
datestamp: 2025-01-21 13:57:27
lastmod: 2025-01-23 17:41:47
status_changed: 2025-01-21 13:57:27
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Cui, Chi
creators_name: Dai, Ming
creators_name: Alevy, Jonathan
title: The Measurement of Changes in Distributional Preferences
subjects: ddc-330
divisions: i-181000
keywords: Distributional Preferences; GARP; Dictator Game; Maximum Information
abstract: This study explores the way in which social information about giving impacts the stability of distributional preferences. We designed a two-stage treatment which varied the information participants received about the maximum amounts given to recipients. Information on maximum giving can significantly increase giving share compared to the control group, especially when the relative price of giving is low. However, with a rise in the relative price,the giving decreases significantly. Applying measures of consistency with the Generalized Axiom of Revealed Preference (GARP) and non-linear Tobit estimates of preferences, we observe changes in distributional preferences indicating that more fairness and efficiency are considered in distributions when social information is provided. Type changes in distributional preferences at an individual level provide evidence that there is one substitution relationship with context to fairness-selfishness and efficiency-equality tradeoffs. People’s preferences can change due to environmental factors, which are less equalityfocused and more efficiency-oriented. It provides evidence for heterogeneity in preference stability by studying distribution stability causal effect.
date: 2025
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00035947
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0759
ppn_swb: 1915375967
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-359473
language: eng
bibsort: CUICHITHEMEASURE20250108
full_text_status: public
series: AWI Discussion Paper Series
volume: 0759
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
pages: 45
citation:   Cui, Chi ; Dai, Ming ; Alevy, Jonathan  (2025) The Measurement of Changes in Distributional Preferences.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/35947/7/Cui_Dai_Alevy_Measurement_dp759_2025.pdf