Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/84996 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods No. 2012/10
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Abstract: 
We use survey and experimental data to explore how effort choices and preferences for redis-tribution are linked. Under standard preferences, redistribution would reduce effort. This is different with social preferences. Using data from the World Value Survey, we find that respondents with stronger preferences for redistribution tend to have weaker incentives to engage in effort, but that the reverse does not hold true. Using a lab experiment, we show that redistribution choices even increase in imposed effort. Those with higher ability are willing to help the needy if earning income becomes more difficult for everybody.
Subjects: 
Effort
redistribution
survey data
simultaneous equation models
experiment
JEL: 
C91
C31
D31
J28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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