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. …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … aversion. Furthermore, we show that an exclusive focus on top incomes may misguide fairness judgments. …

when such conditional fair-ness preferences are measured using the “inequality acceptance” method. Depending on the default … identify distributional preferences and default effects, and discuss best practices for measuring fairness preferences. …

experiment shows that respondents do not account for parental influence on economic success when making (re-)distribution …

source of inequality and the cost of redistribution. We show that Americans and Norwegians differ significantly in fairness … views, but not in the importance assigned to efficiency. The study also provides robust causal evidence of fairness …

for redistribution beyond self-interest. Subjects generated a high or a low income either through a lottery or through an …

skills and preferences. The key feature of our measure is that it aggregates fairness gaps, defined as the difference between …