Revealed Distributional Preferences: Individuals vs. Teams

We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences
of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams
are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of
disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of
advantageous inequality is similar across decision makers. A
consequence for the frequency of preference types is that while a
substantial fraction of individuals is classified as inequality
averse, this type disappears completely in teams. Spiteful types
are markedly more frequent among individuals than among teams. On
the other hand, by far more teams than individuals are classified
as efficiency lovers.