Are We Underestimating Inequality Aversion? Comparing Recruited and Classroom Subjects
Linda Kamas and Anne Preston
Economic Letters, Vol 14, October 2016, pp 157-159
This paper finds that in experiments measuring social preferences, subjects who respond to recruitment incentivized by pecuniary rewards are more likely to be self-interested and less likely to be inequality averse than students who participate in classroom sessions.
Oct 1, 2016