Income-comparison Attitudes in the US and the UK: Evidence from Discrete-choice Experiments
Income-comparison Attitudes in the US and the UK: Evidence from Discrete-choice Experiments
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美国和英国的收入比较态度：来自离散选择实验的证据
DOI：
10.1016/j.jebo.2019.06.012
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
K. Yamada
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作者：
Shigeoka;H;K. Yamada
我们使用美国和英国的代表性样本进行离散选择实验，以估计个人比较收入的倾向程度。我们发现，英国人的经验，从其他个人变得富裕的负效用，而我们只得到微弱的信号，收入比较的态度，从美国人，这是出乎意料的，因为最近的文献记录的地位寻求美国人。这些差异表明，收入比较态度的结果对数据设计的敏感性很高。接下来，我们随机提供信息，增加收入比较态度的显着性，并发现这种处理进一步增加了英国人的负效用。然而，在这方面，美国人也没有受到影响。这些研究结果表明，收入不平等的日益突出可能会扩大不平等的负面影响。
Using representative samples for the United States and the United Kingdom, we conduct a discrete-choice experiment to estimate the degree of individuals’ propensity to compare incomes. We find that the British experience disutility from other individuals becoming wealthier, while we obtain only weak signals of income-comparison attitudes from the Americans, which is unexpected given the recent literature documenting the status-seeking among Americans. These discrepancies suggest a high sensitivity of the results on income-comparison attitudes to the design of the data. Next, we randomly provide information that increases the salience of income-comparison attitudes, and find that this treatmentfurtherincreases disutility among the British. However, here as well, the Americans remain unaffected. These findings suggest that the increased salience of income inequality may amplify the negative impact of inequality.