In 2008, Chile introduced a New Solidarity Pillar (NSP) designed to eliminate the incidence of poverty among elderly adults by setting a floor at around forty percent of the minimum monthly income for the poorest sixty percent of the population. This paper describes the NSP's main...

With the rising popularity of field experiments in economics, re-randomization schemes have emerged as tools to induce balance in observable variables across treatment groups. However, re-randomization is not fully understood and the methodologies to estimate its effects on the distribution of...

Revealed preferences for equal educational opportunity may be due to beliefs that opportunities increase societal income or income equality. To isolate preferences for those goods, we implement an online discrete choice experiment using social statistics generated from true variation among...

To describe preferences for income mobility/equality, we generate statistics that can be interpreted as marginal rates of substitution and converted to willingness-to- pay (WTP). All else constant, U.S. residents are willing to pay $2,736 dollars to increase income equality 10 percentiles and...