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	Too Costly to Correct:An Experimental Study of the Willingness to Pay for Equal Abilities
	Hao Hong ; Jianfeng Ding ; Yang Yao
	2012-04-24 ; 2012-04-24
关键词	the equality-efficiency tradeoff willingness to pay the divinity game
中文摘要	When governments allocate resources to people, people have different levels of abilities to use those resources to generate income. We conduct an experiment of the divinity game to study a hypothetic social planner’s willingness to pay to correct unequal distribution of abilities. The social planner is asked to distribute money from a fixed budget to two other subjects who have different abilities to convert the transfers into their own income. Twenty rounds are conducted that allow the social planner’s budget and the gap of abilities between the two other subjects to vary between rounds. The social planner’s willingness to pay for equal abilities is measured by the equivalent variation (EV), i.e., the amount of money he would like to forgo to avoid a larger gap of abilities. Both parametric and nonparametric estimations show that the willingness to pay for eliminating the same amount of inequality of abilities declines when the initial inequality starts larger. This result contributes to the experimental literature on the tradeoff between equality and efficiency and sheds lights on the explanation of persistent inequality in some societies.
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.calis.edu.cn/hdl/211010/3925]
专题	北京大学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hao Hong,Jianfeng Ding,Yang Yao. Too Costly to Correct:An Experimental Study of the Willingness to Pay for Equal Abilities[J],2012, 2012.
APA	Hao Hong,Jianfeng Ding,&Yang Yao.(2012).Too Costly to Correct:An Experimental Study of the Willingness to Pay for Equal Abilities..
MLA	Hao Hong,et al."Too Costly to Correct:An Experimental Study of the Willingness to Pay for Equal Abilities".(2012).

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