Aversión a la desigualdad entre gitanos españoles. Un enfoque experimental

Ramón Cobo Reyes; Natalia Jiménez; Ángel Solano García

doi:10.3989/ris.2008.i49.82

Authors

Ramón Cobo Reyes Universidad de Granada
Natalia Jiménez Universidad de Granada
Ángel Solano García Universidad de Granada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/ris.2008.i49.82

Keywords:

Equal Distribution, Ethnic Minorities, Experiments, Mechanism, Solidarity

Abstract

This paper presents a first attempt to measure inequality aversion among gypsies. We conducted an experiment among adult gypsies living at slums outside Vallecas (Madrid). To analyze this variable we use the mechanism provided by Kroll & Davidovitz (2003) among 38 voluntary participants. Results indicate that: i) 52,6% of the individuals are inequality averse; ii) there is a positive relationship between inequality aversion and some features of the population such as individual religious practice, marital status, family size, position in the hierarchy of the family or club association and, iii) neither wealth, nor participation in voluntary activities affect inequality aversion.

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