Property, redistribution, and the status quo: a laboratory study
通过实验室实验，研究再分配对经济效率的影响，发现再分配通过促进财产权的自我执行而提升效率，且强制再分配比自愿再分配更有效，高地位群体受益更多。
Abstract We report experimental evidence showing a positive effect of redistribution on economic efficiency via the self-enforcement of property rights, and identify which status groups benefit more and which less. We model an economy in which wealth is produced if players voluntarily comply with the—efficient but inequitable—prevailing social order. We vary exogenously whether redistribution is feasible, and how it is organized. We find that redistribution benefits all status groups as property disputes recede. It is most effective when transfers are not discretionary but instead imposed by some exogenous administration. In the absence of coercive means to enforce property rights, it is the higher status groups, not the lower status groups, who benefit from redistribution being compulsory rather than voluntary.