how fairness views themselves are affected by negative shocks. To answer this question, I conduct two experimental studies … investigating the causal link between income shocks and preferences for redistribution. While Study 1 exogenously manipulates within … an egalitarian fairness view. Participants who are relatively richer, by contrast, distribute resources proportionate to …

how fairness views themselves are affected by negative shocks. To answer this question, I conduct two experimental studies … investigating the causal link between income shocks and preferences for redistribution. While Study 1 exogenously manipulates within … an egalitarian fairness view. Participants who are relatively richer, by contrast, distribute resources proportionate to …

additional limit to redistribution is the fact that even very altruistic agents can deliberately reduce its scope because of its … theories, such as inequality-averse social welfare functions or fairness criteria. It is shown how both approaches can be …

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective … altruistic transfers by Pareto-efficient public redistribution. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 2 presents an …

inequality and fairness, and (ii) how such information interacts with recent experience of being personally exposed to a job … respondents' memory thus increasing their support for redistribution. This effect stems from recently-shocked respondents …