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dc.contributor.authorAlmås, Ingvild
dc.contributor.authorCappelen, Alexander
dc.contributor.authorTungodden, Bertil
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-29T14:37:43Z
dc.date.available2016-11-29T14:37:43Z
dc.date.issued2016-11-29
dc.identifier.issn0804-6824
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2423528
dc.descriptionThe Choice Lab
dc.description.abstractThere is a striking difference in income inequality and redistributive policies between the United States and Scandinavia. To study whether there is a corresponding cross-country difference in social preferences, we conducted the first large-scale international social preference experiment, with nationally representative samples from the United States and Norway. We introduce a new experimental approach, which combines the infrastructure of an international online market place and the infrastructure of a leading international data collection agency. A novel feature of our experiment is that Americans and Norwegians make real distributive choices in identical situations where they have complete information about the source of inequality and the cost of redistribution. We show that Americans and Norwegians differ significantly in fairness views, but not in the importance assigned to efficiency. The study also provides robust causal evidence of fairness considerations being much more fundamental for inequality acceptance than efficiency considerations in both countries.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDP SAM;18/2016
dc.titleCutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are Americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?nb_NO
dc.typeWorking papernb_NO
dc.source.pagenumber45nb_NO


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