inequality, such as differences in effort, luck, or opportunities. We study how fairness views and the extent of redistribution … are much less prevalent. These results indicate that fairness views and attitudes towards redistribution change … distribution of income. Public support for the extent of redistribution typically depends on the perceived causes of income …

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. …

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution … the time when they choose a distribution rule and find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than … under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than …

correlated with giving in the absence of risk. We find limited support for existing models of ex-post and ex-ante fairness. Our …

inform the debate on the fairness of market outcomes by showing that the use of a competitive procedure can, by itself …

In this paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common …