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 …

additional limit to redistribution is the fact that even very altruistic agents can deliberately reduce its scope because of its … theories, such as inequality-averse social welfare functions or fairness criteria. It is shown how both approaches can be …

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective … altruistic transfers by Pareto-efficient public redistribution. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 2 presents an …

inequality is mostly seen as fair, around 10% of third-party redistribution decisions are in line with a fairness norm that only …. 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 self-chosen risk, however, are lacking. I study a novel experimental …