Tag "laboratory experiments" – News

Using laboratory experiments conducted in two countries, we examine how poor institutions influence individuals support for redistribution. Contrary to conventional expectations, we argue that high-earning individuals will prefer more redistribution when they can more easily evade taxes. To test our expectations, we conducted a series of experiments from February to May 2016 simulating earned income and tax evasion. We find that high earners do indeed prefer more redistribution when they can more easily under-report their income. Our findings make an important contribution to the little studied question of how institutional quality affects social policy preferences.

Many people lie about their income. And regardless of wether an income is high or low, people who excel at the tasks are more inclined to conceal their real wage. During experiments dedicated to that question, researches came to the conclusion that there is a specific type of highly productive employees who are prone to cheating. Presenting an article «Who Cheats: Experimental Evidence from the Lab», the professor of University of Oxford Raymond M. Duch spoke about this interesting result in more detail.

On December 08 a research seminar on political economy took place at HSE.  Oxana Bondarenko  (CEFIR) spoke on 'The Effect of Movies on Pro-social Behavior'.