comes from effort rather than luck regardless of their income position; (4) the effect of social mobility on inequality …

luck. We show theoretically that meritocrats in such situations can become very egalitarian in their behavior, and that the …

We examine how people redistribute income when there is uncertainty about the role luck plays in determining … whether luck magnified workers' effort ("lucky opportunities") or determined workers' income directly ("lucky outcomes"). We … find that participants redistribute less and are less reactive to changes in the importance of luck in environments with …

(intergenerational equity), using a common framework generalizing the discounted expected utilitarianism approach. We propose a general …