Promoting Competition or Helping the Less Endowed? Distributional Preferences and Collective Institutional Choices under Intragroup Inequality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10071856 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenju Kamei (0000-0001-8846-7120, Durham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 626-655 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022002716656446 |
| PMID | 30886442 |
| OpenAlex | W3124530827 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 35 |
Unequally distributed resources are ubiquitous. The decision of whether to promote competition or equality is often debated in societies and organizations. With heterogeneous endowments, we let subjects collectively choose between a public good that most benefits the less endowed and a lottery contest in which only one individual in a group receives a prize. Unlike standard theoretical predictions, the majority of subjects, including a substantial number of subjects who believe that their expected payoffs are better in the contest, vote for the public good. Our data suggest that people’s collective institutional choices may be driven by inequality-averse concerns. It also suggests that the collective decision to select the option for the public good depends on voting rules
Competition (biology · CONTEST · Economics · Group Decision Making · Inequality · Inequity aversion · Lottery · Majority rule · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public good · Voting · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Law · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |