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| Titre : | Unconditional basic income and social preferences: some evidence from the lab |
| Auteurs : | Eva Jacob ; Magali Jaoul-Grammare ; Herrade Igersheim |
| Type de document : | document électronique |
| Editeur : | Strasbourg : BETA, 2025 |
| Collection : | Documents de travail, num. 2025-46 |
| Format : | 37 p |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Affiliation Céreq Céreq - Centre associé de StrasbourgThésaurus CEREQ REVENU MINIMUM ; FRANCE ; ECONOMIEAuteur Cité VAN PARIJS Philippe |
| Mots-clés: | RBI-Revenu de base inconditionnel |
| Résumé : | The purpose of this article is to experimentally analyze the assumed links between individuals’ social preferences and their support for a basic income, based on three possible types of preferences: efficiency-oriented, egalitarian, and maximin. To this end, we designed an original experimental protocol at the intersection of two strands of literature: one well-established, dealing with social preferences, and the other more recent and still emerging, focused on basic income. Our experiment yields two main findings. First, participants identified as having maximin-type social preferences significantly tend to choose a distribution including a basic income. Second, participants identified as efficiency-oriented or egalitarian deviate from their usual preference type in favor of the basic income whenever it provides a maximin type distribution. These two results clearly support a justification of basic income in maximin terms, thus following the theoretical argument put forward by Van Parijs. |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| n° fiche programme : | 1114 |
| En ligne : | https://www.beta-economics.fr/working-papers/2025-46/ |
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Beta-WP-2025-46.pdf Adobe Acrobat PDF |
