title: Revealed distributional preferences: Individuals vs. teams.
abstract: We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is similar across decision makers. A consequence for the frequency of preference types is that while a substantial fraction of individuals is classified as inequality averse, this type disappears completely in teams. Spiteful types are markedly more frequent among individuals than among teams. On the other hand, by far more teams than individuals are classified as efficiency lovers.
authors.affiliation: University of Innsbruck, Austria.
authors.forename: Loukas
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Balafoutas
authors.affiliation: University of Innsbruck, Austria.
authors.forename: Rudolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kerschbamer
authors.affiliation: University of Munich, Germany ; University of Gothenburg, Sweden ; CESifo, Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kocher
authors.affiliation: University of Innsbruck, Austria ; CESifo, Munich, Germany ; European University Institute Florence, Italy ; University of Cologne, Germany ; IZA, Bonn, Germany.
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sutter
keywords: Behavioral economics; Distributional preferences; Experimental economics; Individual decisions; Social preferences; Stability of preferences; Team decisions
references.citation: J Econ Behav Organ. 2012 Jun;83-334(1):125-135
references.pmid: 23576829
references.citation: Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci. 2012 Jul;3(4):471-82
references.pmid: 26301530