Allocating an indivisible good. A questionnaire-experimental study of intercultural differences

Abstract We present the results of a questionnaire study in Belgium, Burkina Faso and Indonesia focusing on problem just allocation an indivisible good. The formal axioms proposed social choice theory offer attractive framework to structure response patterns. Interindividual differences can be interpreted meaningful way terms basic intuitions about desert, efficiency compensation. Belgian students are most resource-egalitarian, Burkinese attach large weight innate capacities, Indonesian focus actual production. crucial no-envy criterion is supported by majority respondents, but this becomes small if there unavoidable conflict between “responsibility” requirement stand-alone upper bound. discuss pros cons questionnaire-experimental studies as compared representative surveys.