A meritocratic fairness ideal is generally believed to regard income inequality as fair if it stems from performance …-world phenomena which generate inequality, we investigate two types of unequal opportunities that impact performance: educational … lead individuals to support income redistribution, while also obtaining an assessment regarding to what degree …

redistribution. Estimating a DSGE model with microdata on the support for redistribution, I find that if voters disregarded their … ideological views on welfare policies, redistribution in the US would increase 117%. Because ideology is a more important … on redistribution. Among the drivers of ideology, I find that racial animosity and distrust of the government contributes …

less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the …

association of reduction of income inequality (redistribution) with subjective wellbeing. Their results provide evidence that … not only the outcome (inequality), but also the procedure (redistribution) that leads to the outcome influences subjective … people in Europe are negatively affected by income inequality, whereas reduction of inequality has a positive effect on well …