Preferencias sociales en la asignación de recursos a desplazados y excombatientes: una aproximación al caso colombiano desde la economía experimental

Abstract

"This article examines individual social preferences in the allocation and distribution of resources between internally displaced people and formerillegal-armed-group members in Colombia. A series of experiments are developed, following an experimental economics approach, and the behavior of different types of individuals is analyzed using new arguments in behavioral economic theory. The study provides evidence for the existence of social preferences among individuals who consider the utility or welfare of others within their preference system (or their objective function). When their preferences are revealed, individuals show that they are willing to sanction (at a cost) the violation of a distributive social norm in the allocation of resources. They are also willing to pay in order to compensate individuals who are at a disadvantage due to inequities in resource allocation."