Last-place Aversion: Laboratory and Survey Data on Redistributive Preferences

Laboratory experiments and survey data investigate why low-income individuals may oppose redistribution. The data likely contains results from risk-choice games and money-transfer games, as well as survey responses on minimum-wage attitudes. Author Ilyana Kuziemko and colleagues produced this research dataset.

Use Cases

• Modeling redistributive preferences based on experimental game outcomes.
• Analyzing risk-taking behavior in relation to relative income position.
• Testing the last-place aversion hypothesis using survey data on minimum-wage opinions.

Strengths

• Data is derived from controlled laboratory experiments, suggesting a structured design.
• Hypotheses are tested across multiple contexts: risk games, transfer games, and real-world survey data.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect bias inherent to the specific experimental and survey populations used.

Provenance

Source

Ilyana Kuziemko

Collection Method

Laboratory experiments and survey data collection.