with two donors, Cobb-Douglas preferences, and complete information to investigate how income inequality affects the … simultaneous and sequential moves, even if they have different preferences towards a public good. Second, as income inequality …

misperceptions of inequality? To answer this question, we conduct a nationally representative, randomized survey experiment of 2 …,584 Australians in which respondents either received information about the level of national inequality and economic mobility, their … position in the national income distribution, or no information. We show that both types of information about inequality lead …

when the inequality is generated by the tournament (lottery). The effect still holds when controlling for self …

Meritocratic beliefs are often invoked as justification of inequality. We provide evidence on how meritocratic beliefs … are shaped by economic status and how they contribute to the moral justification of inequality. In a large-scale survey …. Exploiting exogenous variation in meritocratic beliefs in a two-stage analysis shows that beliefs affect how much inequality …

Meritocratic beliefs are often invoked as justification of inequality. We provide evidence on how meritocratic beliefs … are shaped by economic status and how they contribute to the moral justification of inequality. In a large-scale survey …. Exploiting exogenous variation in meritocratic beliefs in a two-stage analysis shows that beliefs affect how much inequality …

This paper examines how perceptions of social mobility affect acceptance of inequality. We conduct a randomized …

, regardless of (non-)random assignment to social jobs and the level of income inequality, individuals in social jobs are only …

, but previously understudied, situation where there is uncertainty about whether inequality is reflecting performance or … uncertainty about the source of inequality provides a strong egalitarian pull on the behavior of meritocrats. In addition, the …

. This result suggests revisiting common narratives on how meritocracy and tolerance of inequality are related. …