The article is concerned with understanding the impact of social preferences and wealth inequality on aggregate …. Increasing the workers' sensitivity to inequality raises effort and reduces wage costs for poor but not necessarily for rich … distributional utility losses and increased inequality …

The article is concerned with understanding the impact of social preferences and wealth inequality on aggregate … microeconomic level and how these in turn translate into macroeconomic outcomes. Increasing the workers' sensitivity to inequality … wealth differences raise aggregate profit and output but entail distributional utility losses and increased inequality. …

We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental … designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda … inequality averse people, (ii) a somewhat smaller yet still large share of people with an altruistic concern for social welfare … determinants of support for redistribution, we document that inequality aversion and altruistic concerns play an important role for …

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda … the Swiss population. We document that inequality aversion and altruistic concerns play a quantitatively large positive … inequality averse individuals display strong support for policies that primarily aim at reducing the incomes of the rich …

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda … the Swiss population. We document that inequality aversion and altruistic concerns play a quantitatively large positive … inequality averse individuals display strong support for policies that primarily aim at reducing the incomes of the rich …

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda … the Swiss population. We document that inequality aversion and altruistic concerns play a quantitatively large positive … inequality averse individuals display strong support for policies that primarily aim at reducing the incomes of the rich …

We design a novel experiment to identify aversion to pure (univariate) health inequality separately from aversion to … income-related and income-caused health inequality. Participants allocate resources to determine health of individuals … preferences while accounting for noise. The median person has strong aversion to pure health inequality, challenging the health …