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Leavey School of Business Santa Clara University
Department ofEconomics

Selected Publications

Are We Underestimating Inequality Aversion? Comparing Recruited and Classroom Subjects

Linda Kamas and Anne Preston

Economic Letters 14, pp. 157-159, October 2016

Economic Letters, Vol 14, October 2016, pp 157-159 


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This paper finds that in experiments measuring social preferences, subjects who respond to recruitment incentivized by pecuniary rewards are more likely to be self-interested and less likely to be inequality averse than students who participate in classroom sessions.

LSB Research, ECON, 2016, Linda Kamas,