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Dissecting inequality-averse preferences

Bergolo, Marcelo; Burdín, Gabriel; Burone, Santiago; … - 2021

Although different approaches and methods have been used to measure inequality aversion, there remains no consensus about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample of more than 1800 first-year undergraduate economics and business students in Uruguay to...

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Technological change, task complexity, and preferences for redistribution

Hope, David; Limberg, Julian; Weber, Nina - 2023

perceptions and preferences for redistribution differ when top earners gain their incomes through luck, routine work, or complex …

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Distributive preferences, social norms and redistribution

Le Garrec, Gilles - In: Revue d'économie politique 125 (2015) 5, pp. 687-700

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Suspicious success : cheating, inequality acceptance, and political preferences

Klimm, Felix - 2018

Supporters of left-wing parties typically place more emphasis on redistributive policies than right-wing voters. I investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is amplified by suspicious success - achievements that may arise from cheating. Using a laboratory experiment, I...

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Redistributive preferences, redistribution and inequality : evidence from a panel of OECD countries

Kuhn, Andreas - 2012

inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and … their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes …

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Double meritocratic standards

Evirgen, Sueda; Suetens, Sigrid - 2025

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Chapter 23 Strong reciprocity and the welfare state

Fong, Christina M.; Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1439-1464). 2006

We explore the contribution of reciprocity and other non selfish motives to the political viability of the modern welfare state. In the advanced economies, a substantial fraction of total income is regularly transferred from the better off to the less well off, with the approval of the...

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Cooperation creates special moral obligations

Cappelen, Alexander W.; Gauri, Varun; Tungodden, Bertil - 2018

A large-scale economic experiment, conducted on a representative sample of the US population, shows that cooperation creates special moral obligations. Participants in the experiment, acting as impartial spectators, transferred significantly more money to an unlucky worker when two individuals...

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Normative analysis with societal constraints

Boadway, Robin W.; Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - 2013

This paper examines the question of achieving a societal consensus around redistributive policies. Its extent is measured by the degree of work participation among the different skill classes that populate the economy. This consensus is driven both by the material incentives and heterogeneous...

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Social risk, fairness types, and redistribution

Bortolotti, Stefania; Kölle, Felix; Soraperra, Ivan; … - 2025

of inequality shape fairness judgments and the level of redistribution in a controlled experiment with a total of 2 …,152 participants. We find significantly less inequality acceptance, and thus much more redistribution, under social risk. In addition … types and redistribution. …

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