A meritocratic fairness ideal is generally believed to regard income inequality as fair if it stems from performance … lead individuals to support income redistribution, while also obtaining an assessment regarding to what degree …

social preferences for redistribution. Two separate experiments (one in the UK and the other in the USA) show that the elite …

inequality and fairness, and (ii) how such information interacts with recent experience of being personally exposed to a job … respondents' memory thus increasing their support for redistribution. This effect stems from recently-shocked respondents …

inequality for support for redistribution? We study these questions in a staggered experiment with a representative sample of the … redistribution. These results hide, however, important heterogeneity because the effects of beliefs about inequality for demand for … redistribution are preference-dependent: only affluent inequality averse individuals, but not the selfish and altruistic ones …

opportunities and outcomes. We elicit redistribution decisions from a U.S.-representative sample who observe worker outcomes and … lucky opportunities. Our findings have implications for models that seek to understand and predict redistribution attitudes …, and help to explain the gap between lab evidence on support for redistribution and U.S. inequality trends. …