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The Missing Type: Where Are the Inequality Averse (Students)?

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The empirical evidence on the existence of social preferences-or lack thereof-is predominantly based on student samples. Yet, knowledge about whether these findings can be extended to the general population is still scarce. In this paper, we compare the distribution of social preferences in a student and in a representative sample. Using descriptive analysis and a rigorous clustering approach, we show that the distribution of the general population's social preferences fundamentally differs from the students'
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hal-04362826 , version 1 (23-12-2023)

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Ernst Fehr, Thomas Epper, Julien Senn. The Missing Type: Where Are the Inequality Averse (Students)?. 2023. ⟨hal-04362826⟩
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