distribution of income. Public support for the extent of redistribution typically depends on the perceived causes of income … inequality, such as differences in effort, luck, or opportunities. We study how fairness views and the extent of redistribution … are much less prevalent. These results indicate that fairness views and attitudes towards redistribution change …

This article presents a novel explanation why demand for redistribution on average does not respond to information on … observed unresponsiveness of demand for redistribution may result because the group which drives the effect on beliefs does not … increase demand for redistribution and may even decrease it. Indeed, despite the strong perception shift in the high …

In most OECD countries, pension reform policy has decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution over the last … three decades, that is, redistribution among members of the same generation with high and low pension entitlements. This … relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …

opportunities and outcomes. We elicit redistribution decisions from a U.S.-representative sample who observe worker outcomes and … lucky opportunities. Our findings have implications for models that seek to understand and predict redistribution attitudes …, and help to explain the gap between lab evidence on support for redistribution and U.S. inequality trends …