Measuring Attitudes Towards Inequality
基于漏桶实验，利用澳大利亚和以色列学生的调查数据估计三种社会福利函数，发现不平等厌恶的测量值比通常用于衡量不平等和最优税收结构的数值低得多，且基于基尼系数的福利函数拟合更好。
Individuals' attitudes to inequality aversion are measured using survey data, based on the leaky‐bucket experiment, for several groups of students in Australia and Israel. Three forms of social welfare function are estimated. It is found that measures of inequality aversion can be obtained with some precision and that these estimates are substantially lower than the values typically used by those measuring inequality and examining optimal tax structures. Furthermore, a welfare function based on the Gini inequality measure is generally found to give a better fit than forms based on constant relative or constant absolute inequality aversion.