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lead individuals to support income redistribution, while also obtaining an assessment regarding to what degree …
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Support for redistribution depends on whether inequality stems from differences in performance or luck, but different … sources of luck may impact redistribution differentially. We elicit redistribution decisions from a U.S.-representative sample …
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elicit redistribution decisions from a U.S.-nationally representative sample who observe worker outcomes and whether luck … findings have implications for models that seek to understand and predict attitudes toward redistribution, while helping to … explain the gap between lab evidence on preferences for redistribution and real-world inequality trends …
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opportunities and outcomes. We elicit redistribution decisions from a U.S.-representative sample who observe worker outcomes and … lucky opportunities. Our findings have implications for models that seek to understand and predict redistribution attitudes …, and help to explain the gap between lab evidence on support for redistribution and U.S. inequality trends …
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opportunities and outcomes. We elicit redistribution decisions from a U.S.-representative sample who observe worker outcomes and … lucky opportunities. Our findings have implications for models that seek to understand and predict redistribution attitudes …, and help to explain the gap between lab evidence on support for redistribution and U.S. inequality trends. …
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theory of social justice: the principles of compensation and reward. Ex-ante and ex-post versions of the compensation …
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The theoretical literature on inequality of opportunity formulates basic properties that measures of inequality of opportunity should have. Standard methods for the measurement of inequality of opportunity require the construction of counterfactual outcome distributions through statistical...
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This paper develops a normative approach to the measurement of ex-ante inequality of opportunity in a multidimensional setting, i.e., when the individual outcome is represented by a multidimensional variable. We characterize three classes of social welfare functions, all endorsing ex ante...
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We posit that the relationship between income inequality and economic growth ismediated by the level of equality of opportunity, which we identify with intergenerationalmobility. In economies characterized by intergenerational rigidities, an increase in incomeinequality has persistent...
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Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic manner the various approaches put forth in the literature to show whether and to what extent different choices matter empirically. We use EU-SILC data for most European countries for 2005...
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