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 …

This paper shows that higher levels of perceived wage inequality are associated with a weaker (stronger) belief into … further corroborated using various complementary measures of individuals' perception of the chances and risks associated with … an unequal distribution of economic resources, such as their perception of the chances of upward mobility. I finally show …

the desire to send positive signals to others about one’s own skill; this suggests a either a bias in judgment, strategic …

The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates … misperceptions of probability drive the favorite-longshot bias, as suggested by Prospect Theory. -- Pricing under risk ; probability … weighting ; compound lotteries ; favorite-longshot bias …

inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and … their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes …

This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between …. Surprisingly, however, differences in distributional norms are much smaller than differences with respect to inequality perceptions … redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the …

's attention to inequality that adversely affects Asians. In a nationally representative US sample (N=3,257), we find that around … significantly reduces people's attention to inequality that adversely affects Asians in a pattern detection hiring task, we find …

claimed that "the more we target benefits at the poor, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality". The basic … fact become a very weak one. For what it matters, targeting tends to be associated with higher levels of redistribution …

This study combines novel financial-literacy data with measures of attitudes to redistribution from the British … intervention for income redistribution. The effect is robust to several specifications, samples, longitudinal models and … types of inequality/discrimination, e.g. based on gender, race or sexual orientation. An inquiry into the mechanisms of the …