This paper investigates distributive justice using a fourfold experimental design:The ignorance and the risk scenarios … became more inequality-averse and one quarterremained unchanged as umpires. In the risk scenario, subjects become onaverage …'shypothesis, the entropy social welfare function, and randomization preferenceenjoyed impressive acceptance. For the risk scenario, the …

population size of eachregion. The experiment shows that centralization induces lower taxmorale and less efficient outcomes. The …

examine the effect of imperfect information on contributions levels. To assess prior risk attitudes, individual valuations of … clear evidence of risk aversion, and of a negative relationship between the latter and willingness to cooperate. …

Building on previous studies on perceptions of inequality, welfare and risk we investigate the structure of individuals …' rankings of uncertain prospects in terms of risk and their relationship to individual preferences. We examine three interlinked … propositions that are fundamental to the standard economic approach to risk: (i) that rankings by risk are simply the reverse of …

Orderings of income distribution in terms of inequality should be closely related to orderings in terms of risk. Using … a novel mult-country questgionnaire experiment we examine the basis for this claim in terms of respondents …' distributional perceptions. We show that in terms of both inequality and risk individuals consistently reject one of the standard …