We study beliefs about wealth inequality and preferences for wealth redistribution. For this, we conduct a large …-scale online survey in Germany. First, we analyze how well participants are informed about the German wealth distribution and their … position in it. Second, we investigate how preferences for wealth redistribution are affected by an information experiment. One …

Preferences over wealth can explain why households do not spend more when real interest rates fall, because they save … more than optimal under a standard model. However, little is known about preferences over wealth empirically. We run an … wealth, consistent with wealth entering the utility function directly. …

individuals' fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality …'s contribution highlights the importance of 'intuitive' measures of political matters such as wealth inequality. It further indicates …

wealth and income. We recruit subjects from different strata and run a series of double-blind dictator games where the … between generosity and wealth. Bogotá is divided by law into six socio-economic strata which are close proxies of household … endowment to all participants and find that donations are significantly increasing with wealth. However, in a second experiment …