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Behavioural economics: Preserving rank as a social norm

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  • Gary Charness

    (Professor of Economics and the director of the Experimental and Behavioral Economics Laboratory, University of California at Santa Barbara)

  • Marie Claire Villeval

    (Research Professor and the director of the GATE-Lab, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    member of the CORTEX Laboratory of Excellence, University of Lyon)

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Experiments show that people dislike inequality, but are they willing to overturn established hierarchies to achieve income equality? A cross-cultural experiment shows that from a young age humans exhibit rank reversal aversion when redistributing resources between the rich and the poor, suggesting that hierarchy preservation is a social norm.

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  • Gary Charness & Marie Claire Villeval, 2017. "Behavioural economics: Preserving rank as a social norm," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 1(8), pages 1-2, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nathum:v:1:y:2017:i:8:d:10.1038_s41562-017-0137
    DOI: 10.1038/s41562-017-0137
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