find that Germans systematically underestimate their true place in the world’s income distribution, but that correcting …

behavior but rather on values that are traditionally viewed as populist values, such as distrust of institutions and neighbors …

What matters for individuals' preferences for redistribution? In this paper we show that consequentialist beliefs about … inequality - beliefs about how economic inequality changes the crime rate or the quality of democratic institutions, for example … shape a distinct conversation about redistribution. …

democracy, where a powerful economic elite cooperates with politicians and bureaucrats for their mutual benefit. …

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. …

In this paper we explore how individual social preferences correlate with political support for redistribution. We ran … political support for distributive policies. The main correlates for support of redistribution are the beliefs concerning the … importance of effort versus luck for success (fairness), the trust in government institutions (effectiveness) and the perceived …