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Suspicious success : cheating, inequality acceptance, and political preferences

Klimm, Felix - 2018

cheating. Using a laboratory experiment, I exogenously vary cheating opportunities for stakeholders who work on a real effort … earnings between the stakeholders, although it is not possible to detect cheating. I find that the opportunity to cheat leads … to different views on whether to accept inequality. Left-wing spectators substantially reduce inequality when cheating is …

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Coping with advantageous inequity : field evidence from professional penalty kicking

Lackner, Mario; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2017

This contribution examines the effect of advantageous inequity on performance using data from top-level penalty kicking in soccer. Results indicate that, on average, professionals do not perform worse when they experience unfair advantages. However, we find a negative effect of advantageous...

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Risk aversion and other factors determine income redistribution preferences

Gärtner, Manja; Mollerstrom, Johanna - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 17/18, pp. 151-156

The amount of redistribution people favor depends on socioeconomic factors and their views on fairness. This study, based on a representative survey conducted in Sweden, confirms earlier results: Higher incomes are correlated with wanting less redistribution, women are more in favor of...

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Fairness in times of crisis : negative shocks, relative income and preferences for redistribution

Hochleitner, Anna - 2022

While economic crises tend to raise questions about a fair distribution of resources, less is known about whether and how fairness views themselves are affected by negative shocks. To answer this question, I conduct two experimental studies investigating the causal link between income shocks and...

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Lifecycle Consumption under Different Income Profiles : Experimental Evidence

Duffy, John - 2018

We report on a series of economic decision-making experiments exploring how individuals make lifecycle consumption and saving plans when they face different income profiles. We find that for every income profile we consider, subjects on average over-consume in the early periods of life and...

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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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The fairness of inequality due to risk and effort choices

Sterba, Maj-Britt - 2022

Three determining factors for economic inequality are self-chosen effort, self-chosen risk, and external circumstances. The fairness people assign to inequalities due to effort and external circumstances is widely studied. Insights on the fairness of inequalities due to self-chosen effort and...

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Tax morale and fairness in conflict : an experiment

Engel, Christoph; Mittone, Luigi; Morreale, Azzurra - 2019

Arguably, for many citizens the perceived expected disutility from sanctions is smaller than the monetary gain from tax evasion. Nevertheless most people pay their taxes most of the time. In a lab experiment, we show that the willingness to pay taxes even absent enforcement is indeed pronounced....

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Lucky But Confident — How Confidence Can Polarize Meritocratic Beliefs and Preferences for Redistribution

Hansson, Kajsa; Sund, Oda - 2023

How does the experience of success in combination with confidence affect meritocratic beliefs and preferences for redistribution? In a large-scale experiment, we manipulate both the level of confidence in own performance and the outcome of a competition to provide causal evidence. First, we...

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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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