Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can … shading. To analyze fairness perceptions associated with competitive mechanisms, we run laboratory experiments where a single … powerful buyer can trade with one of several sellers- an environment that can lead to pronounced inequality among the …

relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …

the role of status inequality on violence suggests an important societal cost of economic and social inequalities. …

, and help to explain the gap between lab evidence on support for redistribution and U.S. inequality trends. …

The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from … winner-take-all reward structures. We find that the majority of participants consider extreme income inequality generated in …" fairness argument for no redistribution: the winner deserves all the earnings because these earnings were determined by his or …

differs from the students’ distribution. In the general population, three types emerge: an inequality averse, an altruistic … of an inequality averse type in the student population is particularly striking considering the fact that this type …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and …

inequality aversion over current consumption allocations. Inequality aversion lifts the consumption path of the poor region …, while the rich region must take a greater share of the climate burden. Furthermore, with inequality aversion, the optimal …. However, loans to poor countries to reduce inequality may result in a debt crisis, and hence, debt remittance may be part of …

We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure … voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged. …

There is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, but only little … evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conduct a two-year, face … those misperceptions does not affect their support for policies related to global inequality. …