Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• ACKERT, LUCY F.
• MARTINEZ-VAZQUEZ, JORGE
• RIDER, MARK

Titel

SOCIAL PREFERENCES AND TAX POLICY DESIGN: SOME EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE

Ist Teil von

• Economic inquiry, 2007-07, Vol.45 (3), p.487-501

Ort / Verlag

Malden, USA: Blackwell Publishing Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

Wiley Online Library All Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article reports the results of a set of experiments designed to examine whether a taste for fairness affects people’s preferred tax structure. Using the Fehr and Schmidt model, we devise a simple test for the presence of social preferences in voting for alternative tax structures. The experimental results show that individuals demonstrate concern for their own payoff and inequality aversion in choosing between alternative tax structures. However, concern for redistribution decreases as the deadweight loss from progressive taxation increases. Our findings have important implications for tax policy design. (JEL C92, D63, H21, H23)