importance of luck for success, and how this mediates their meritocratic beliefs and acceptance of inequality. We randomly assign …

Meritocratic beliefs are often invoked as justification of inequality. We provide evidence on how meritocratic beliefs … are shaped by economic status and how they contribute to the moral justification of inequality. In a large-scale survey …. Exploiting exogenous variation in meritocratic beliefs in a two-stage analysis shows that beliefs affect how much inequality …

We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, in which trust increases efficiency and thus allows …

, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …

This paper presents a way to explore how macroeconomic shifts cause inequality changes. It is based on the backwardness … control over the direct impact on inequality changes caused by macroeconomic changes that affects the relative competitiveness … inequality in a context of capital-skill complementarity and imperfect mobility of workers. The main conclusion of this paper is …