A meritocratic fairness ideal is generally believed to regard income inequality as fair if it stems from performance … lead individuals to support income redistribution, while also obtaining an assessment regarding to what degree …

Meritocratic fairness justifies inequality when it stems from performance. Yet performance is influenced by one …'s genetics. I investigate whether individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in … study highlights that individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in …

The meritocratic fairness ideal implies that inequalities in earnings are regarded as fair only when they reflect … differences in performance. Consequently, implementation of the meritocratic fairness ideal requires complete information about …

social preferences for redistribution. Two separate experiments (one in the UK and the other in the USA) show that the elite …

how fairness views themselves are affected by negative shocks. To answer this question, I conduct two experimental studies … investigating the causal link between income shocks and preferences for redistribution. While Study 1 exogenously manipulates within … an egalitarian fairness view. Participants who are relatively richer, by contrast, distribute resources proportionate to …

The amount of redistribution people favor depends on socioeconomic factors and their views on fairness. This study … less redistribution, women are more in favor of redistribution than men on average, and older people favor it more than … younger people. People’s views on fairness and altruism also play a role. The study also shows for the first time that …