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We use a large and heterogeneous sample of the Danish population to investigate the importance of distributional preferences for behavior in a public good game and a trust game. We find robust evidence for the significant explanatory power of distributional preferences. In fact, compared to...
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majority voting on redistribution? Fairness preferences are relevant for redistribution outcomes only if fair-minded voters are … pivotal. Pivotality, in turn, depends on the structure of income classes. We experimentally study voting on redistribution … to matter if the "rich" are in majority. With a "poor" majority, we find that redistribution outcomes look as if all …
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Tax incentives can be more or less salient, i.e. noticeable or cognitively easy to process. Our hypothesis is that taxes on consumers are more salient to consumers than equivalent taxes on sellers because consumers underestimate the extent of tax shifting in the market. We show that tax salience...
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