inequality, such as differences in effort, luck, or opportunities. We study how fairness views and the extent of redistribution …The steady increase in inequality over the past decades has revived a lively debate about what can be considered a fair … inequality. We focus on situations in which the rich have potentially acquired their fortunes by means of cheating. In an …

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

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

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. …

This study investigates the influence of gender composition on allocation decisions involving a rank-inequality … tradeoff. In a laboratory experiment, participants chose to either alleviate inequality by relinquishing their current relative … rank or exacerbate inequality by maintaining their current rank. Two essential features of the experiment are: 1 …