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Preferences for redistribution and perception of fairness : an experimental study

Durante, Ruben; Putterman, Louis G.; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2013

We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how demand for redistribution of income depends on self-interest, insurance … is affected by redistribution. We estimate utility weights for the different sources of demand for redistribution, with …

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Political self-serving bias and redistribution

Deffains, Bruno; Espinosa, Romain; Thoeni, Christian - 2015

We explore the impact of the self-serving bias on the supply and demand for redistribution. We present results from an … experiment in which participants decide on redistribution after performing a real effort task. Dependent on individual … external factors. Participants take two redistribution decisions. First, they choose a supply of redistribution in a situation …

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Shallow meritocracy: an experiment on fairness views

Andre, Peter - 2021

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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Inequality, life expectancy, and the intragenerational redistribution puzzle - some experimental evidence

Krieger, Tim; Meemann, Christine; Traub, Stefan - 2022

In most OECD countries, pension reform policy has decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution over the last … three decades, that is, redistribution among members of the same generation with high and low pension entitlements. This … relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …

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Shallow meritocracy

Andre, Peter - 2023

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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