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 …

inequality: Thus there is a new approach for explaining Piketty's historical findings of a medium term rise of the capital income …

Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income … distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and …, in the case of the so-called zero income Shapley decomposition, inequality in Luxembourg is strongly related to income …

Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be … Surveys, to revisit the question of whether inequality is associated with economic growth and, in particular, to examine … whether inequality of opportunity - driven by circumstances at birth - has a negative effect on subsequent growth. Results are …