redistribution from the rich to the poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo …

individuals' payoffs are interdependent to those where payoffs are independent. In a laboratory experiment, we study whether the … resulting inequality is perceived differently and how this affects redistribution. Across treatments, we compare a spectator …'s redistribution of two workers' earnings. If workers do not compete in a zero-sum setting, average redistribution decreases. In a …

more stable. -- Social preferences ; charitable donations ; dictator game ; experiment …

redistribution from the rich to the poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo …

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution … the time when they choose a distribution rule and find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than … under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than …

find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than in the glare of full information. However, the scope … of redistribution is less sensitive to the degree of uncertainty than predicted by a model of selfish and rational … expected utility maximizers. For all degrees of uncertainty, we find a coexistence of libertarianism and redistribution as well …

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Support for redistribution may also be affected by altruistic and egalitarian preferences, but knowledge about the … redistribution in a broad sample of the Swiss population. Based on a recently developed non-parametric clustering procedure, we …

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …