We show that inequality triggers social unrest in rural India. We develop a theoretical framework where social unrest … inequality measure increases by 6.5% the unconditional probability of observing social unrest in a village in a given month. …

subjects were more "meritocratic" than others. Italian subjects reacted the most to the source of inequality, decreasing demand …-country difference in demand for redistribution and opens new perspectives on what may be considered "fair" or "unfair" inequality in …

. This result suggests revisiting common narratives on how meritocracy and tolerance of inequality are related. …

degree of inequality in society and define a steady state to which inequality can converge. By taking the aggregated Gini … recession of 2009/2010 and the Euro crisis of 2010/2015 (1995–2019). Not surprisingly, they found inequality convergence in the …

Increasing inequality is commonly associated with social unrest and conflict between social classes. This paper reports … the results of a laboratory experiment to study the implications of rising inequality on the tendency to burn others … how fair and transparent this relationship is. The findings indicate that increasing inequality does not per se lead to …

and decrease inequality within groups. The scarcity pricing mechanism, which is a per-unit tax equal to the marginal …

find that the two tax and redistribution mechanisms reduce extraction, increase efficiency and decrease inequality within …