available payoff allocations. This paper is concerned with advancing two new, empirically sound, concepts: equity-driven impulse … balance equilibrium (EIBE) and equity-driven quantal response equilibrium (EQRE): both introduce a distributive reference … successful in terms of fit to the experimental data: EQRE, IBE, EIBE, QRE and Nash equilibrium. -- Fairness ; Inequity aversion …

redistribution decisions at the end of that period, in an environment where we keep fixed the sum of incomes over the period. First … effect of income inequality on redistribution decisions, we delve into the history behind one's income to isolate the effect …

(intergenerational equity), using a common framework generalizing the discounted expected utilitarianism approach. We propose a general … measure of welfare as equity equivalents and develop the corresponding inequity index. We then allow for different degrees of …

demands more redistribution. Adverse shocks, like earthquakes, strengthen the belief that random "bad luck" can frustrate the … redistribution. We then present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by one of the strongest seismic … with survey data about individual opinions on redistribution collected a few months later. The empirical analysis …

explores which aspects of redistribution are more popular and among which groups. The roles of selfinterest, perceptions of … inequality, values, and the relationship between citizens and the public sphere in shaping attitudes to redistribution are …