Consequential egalitarianism vs. accountability principle: an experimental investigation Academic Article

abstract

• 2015 Taylor & Francis. ABSTRACT: We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate how peoples fairness views and redistribution depend on different rooted risks, specifically whether the risk is exogenously assigned in a pure-luck control assignment or endogenously chosen by subjects in an option-luck treatment. This experiment examines two contradictory views about distributive justice, namely consequential egalitarianism and the accountability principle (AP). The results show widespread support for the view of AP when participants have the opportunity to alleviate the risks.

authors

• Palma, Marco

published proceedings

• APPLIED ECONOMICS LETTERS

altmetric score

• 0.25

author list (cited authors)

• Xu, Z. P., & Palma, M. A.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Xu, Zhicheng Phil||Palma, Marco A

publication date

• May 2016

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• Applied Economics Letters  Journal

keywords

• Accountability Principle
• C91
• Consequential Egalitarianism
• D31
• D63
• Fairness
• Option Luck
• Pure Luck

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/13504851.2015.1088134

start page

• 562

end page

• 565

volume

• 23

issue

• 8

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2015.1088134

user-defined tag

• 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions