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Recent models of economic fairness assume that at least some people are motivated to reduce economic differences … concern for fairness extends beyond egocentric comparisons of economic distributions …
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Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can … shading. To analyze fairness perceptions associated with competitive mechanisms, we run laboratory experiments where a single …
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Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can … shading. To analyze fairness perceptions associated with competitive mechanisms, we run laboratory experiments where a single …
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We conduct an interdisciplinary meta-analysis to aggregate the knowledge from empirical estimates of inequality aversion reported from 1999 to 2022. In particular, we examine 85 estimates of disadvantageous inequality aversion (or envy) and advantageous inequality aversion (or guilt) from 26...
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Meritocratic fairness justifies inequality when it stems from performance. Yet performance is influenced by one …
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Meritocracies aspire to reward effort and hard work but promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances they were born into. The choice to work hard is, however, often shaped by circumstances. This study investigates whether people's merit judgments are sensitive to this endogeneity of...
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Meritocracies aspire to reward hard work and promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances into which they were born. However, circumstances often shape the choice to work hard. I show that people's merit judgments are "shallow" and insensitive to this effect. They hold others...
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how fairness views themselves are affected by negative shocks. To answer this question, I conduct two experimental studies … an egalitarian fairness view. Participants who are relatively richer, by contrast, distribute resources proportionate to …
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. The fairness people assign to inequalities due to effort and external circumstances is widely studied. Insights on the … fairness of inequalities due to self-chosen effort and self-chosen risk, however, are lacking. I study a novel experimental … inequality is mostly seen as fair, around 10% of third-party redistribution decisions are in line with a fairness norm that only …
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Arguably, for many citizens the perceived expected disutility from sanctions is smaller than the monetary gain from tax evasion. Nevertheless most people pay their taxes most of the time. In a lab experiment, we show that the willingness to pay taxes even absent enforcement is indeed pronounced....
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