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标题：Choices in Egalitarian Distribution: Inequality Aversion versus Risk Aversion
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作者：Leima Davidovitz ; Yoram Kroll
期刊名称：Distributional Analysis Publications
印刷版ISSN：1352-2469
出版年度：1999
卷号：1999
出版社：Suntory Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines
摘要：Inequality aversion and risk aversion are widely assumed features of economic models. But a review of the literature revealed that inequality aversion and risk aversion are treated as separate variables. This paper presents exploratory research designed to separate aversion from risk aversion. In a set of laboratory experiments subjects chose between two alternatives with the same individual risk but different levels of egalitarianism. Thus, the choice of the more egalitarian alternative with constant risk level implies a higher level of inequality aversion. The experiment was conducted among 211 eight-year-old children, 107 of whom live on Kibbutz and 104 in the city. Most of the children preferred equal distribution of inequality. We found no significant difference between Kibbutz children and city children in inequality aversion
关键词：Inequality aversion; risk aversion; income distribution; egalitarianism; ;economic models