use of the representative German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) that offers data on the individual attitudes toward …, fairness considerations, economic beliefs and several other individual factors drive individual preferences for tax rate … in attitudes toward progressive taxation. Rather, we show that the choice of the favoured tax rate is also driven by …

In this contribution we study the determinants of how individuals assess the social fairness of a given income …: first fairness preferences, second beliefs on the sources of economic success and the functioning of democracy and third … indicate that self-interest, beliefs and fairness preferences jointly shape fairness assessments. In addition, a number of …

identify the causal effect of increased learning intensity on Inequality of Educational Opportunity (IEOp), the share in … learning intensity had no short-term effect on IEOp. In the medium term, however, IEOp increased as differences in parental … increasing the efficiency of educational systems and to the role of learning intensity for explaining changes in educational …

-interest, information, fairness judgements, economic beliefs and other individual factors such as socialisation under the communist regime …