A study of redistribution preferences on subjective welfare

• Project/Area Number: 23530388
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Public finance/Monetary economics
• Research Institution: Kyoto Sangyo University
• Principal Investigator: IIDA Yoshio 京都産業大学, 経済学部, 教授 (50273727)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2013
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
• Keywords: 所得再分配 / 再分配選好 / 経済実験 / アンケート調査 / 所得格差 / 実験経済学 / 行動経済学

Research Abstract

The study conducted questionnaire surveys and economic experiments to investigate the disutility of individuals in income gaps by verifying their redistribution preferences. Individuals with higher income gave about 5.3% of their income to their anonymous paired individuals with lower income in the experimental study and answered to give about 10.2% in the survey. The amount of redistribution was influenced by the factors that generated the income disparities; individuals show the slightly tendency not to accept disparities by luck than those by their own talents and efforts. A similar trend is also found in the recipients of redistribution in the survey but it was not clear in the experimental study. An experimental study in China shows that the preference was influenced by individual cultural background. Chinese are significantly more generous than Japanese.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 所得再分配における分配者・被分配者の選好―アンケートと経済実験の対比からの検証― (2014)
  • Author(s): 飯田善郎
  • Journal Title: 京都産業大学論集社会科学系列 Volume: 第31号 Pages: 231-248
• [Journal Article] 所得再分配における分配者・被分配者の選好-アンケート調査と経済実験の対比からの検証- (2014)
  • Author(s): 飯田善郎
  • Journal Title: 京都産業大学論集 Volume: 31 Pages: 231-248
  • NAID: 110009807824
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Does Economics Education Make Bad Citizens? The Effect of Economics Education in Japan (2011)
  • Author(s): Yoshio IIDA and Sobei Oda
  • Journal Title: Journal of Education for Business Volume: Vol.86 Pages: 234-239
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 格差発生要因と分配者・被分配者の所得再分配選好の関係:日中比較 (2012)
  • Author(s): 飯田善郎
  • Organizer: 行動経済学会第六回大会・実験社会科学カンファレンス合同大会
  • Place of Presentation: 青山学院大学
• [Presentation] 格差発生要因と分配者・被分配者の所 得再分配選好の関係：日中比較 (2012)
  • Author(s): 飯田善郎
  • Organizer: 行動経済学会第六回大会・実験社会科学カンファレンス合同大会
  • Place of Presentation: 青山学院大学