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On the relation between income inequality and happiness : do fairness perceptions matter?

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009

less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …

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Dissecting inequality-averse preferences

Bergolo, Marcelo; Burdín, Gabriel; Burone, Santiago; … - 2021

Although different approaches and methods have been used to measure inequality aversion, there remains no consensus about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample of more than 1800 first-year undergraduate economics and business students in Uruguay to...

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Biased perceptions of income distribution and preferences for redistribution : evidence from a survey experiment

Cruces, Guillermo; Pérez Truglia, Ricardo; Tetaz, Martín - 2012

explores their potential impact on preferences for redistribution. A tailored household survey provides original evidence on … they were relatively richer than they were tend to demand higher levels of redistribution when informed of their true … ranking. -- income distribution ; biased perceptions ; limited information ; preferences for redistribution …

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Biased perceptions of income distribution and preferences for redistribution : evidence from a survey experiment

Cruces, Guillermo; Perez Truglia, Ricardo; Tetaz, Martín - 2011

agents' biased perceptions with this information has a significant effect on their stated preferences for redistribution … levels of redistribution when informed of their true ranking. This relationship between biased perceptions and political … attitudes provides an alternative explanation for the relatively low degree of redistribution observed in modern democracies …

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Redistribution, inequality and political participation : evidence from Mexico during the 2008 financial crisis

Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno - 2016

This paper explores the relationship between a large government cash transfer programme, changes in inequality, and political participation in Mexico. The results show that increases in the coverage of the programme during the 2008 financial crisis resulted in greater individual participation in...

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The economics of justice as fairness

Abatemarco, Antonio; Stroffolini, Francesca - 2017

In this paper we challenge the common interpretation of Rawls' Theory of Justice as Fairness by showing that this Theory, as outlined in the Restatement (Rawls 2001), goes well beyond the definition of a distributive value judgment, in such a way as to embrace efficiency issues as well. A simple...

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The economics of justice as fairness

Abatemarco, Antonio; Stroffolini, Francesca - 2018

In this paper, the authors challenge the common interpretation of Rawls' Theory of Justice as Fairness by showing that this theory, as outlined in the restatement (Rawls, Justice as Fairness: a Restatement, 2001), goes well beyond the definition of a distributive value judgment, in such a way as...

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Inequality, inequity aversion, and the provision of public goods

Kölle, Felix; Sliwka, Dirk; Zhou, Nannan - 2011

We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...

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Long term trends in fair and unfair inequality in the United States

Hussey, Andrew; Jetter, Michael - 2014

This paper analyzes the microeconomic sources of wage inequality in the United States from 1967-2012. Decomposing inequality into factors categorized by degree of personal responsibility, we find that education is able to explain more than twice as much of inequality today as 45 years ago....

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Testing Marx

Bartels, Charlotte; Kersting, Felix; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2023

We study the dynamics of capital accumulation, income inequality, capital concentration, and voting up to 1914. Based on new panel data for Prussian regions, we re-evaluate the famous Revisionism Debate between orthodox Marxists and their critics. We show that changes in capital accumulation led...

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