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Shallow meritocracy: an experiment on fairness views

Andre, Peter - 2021

Meritocracies aspire to reward effort and hard work but promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances they were born into. The choice to work hard is, however, often shaped by circumstances. This study investigates whether people's merit judgments are sensitive to this endogeneity of...

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Effects of Gain-Loss Frames on Advantageous Inequality Aversion

Boun My, Kene - 2018

framed as gains. We test this prediction using data from two modified dictator game experiments. Consistent with the model …

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Preferences for redistribution and perception of fairness : an experimental study

Durante, Ruben; Putterman, Louis G.; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2013

We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how demand for redistribution of income depends on self-interest, insurance … is affected by redistribution. We estimate utility weights for the different sources of demand for redistribution, with …

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"They Never Had a Chance" : unequal opportunities and fair redistributions

Dong, Lu; Huang, Lingbo; Lien, Jaimie W - 2022 - This Version: July 6, 2022

A meritocratic fairness ideal is generally believed to regard income inequality as fair if it stems from performance … lead individuals to support income redistribution, while also obtaining an assessment regarding to what degree …

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Suspicious success : cheating, inequality acceptance, and political preferences

Klimm, Felix - 2018

Supporters of left-wing parties typically place more emphasis on redistributive policies than right-wing voters. I investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is amplified by suspicious success - achievements that may arise from cheating. Using a laboratory experiment, I...

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Dissecting inequality-averse preferences

Bergolo, Marcelo; Burdín, Gabriel; Burone, Santiago; … - 2021

Although different approaches and methods have been used to measure inequality aversion, there remains no consensus about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample of more than 1800 first-year undergraduate economics and business students in Uruguay to...

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Responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health

Robson, Matthew; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Ourti, Tom - 2024

We estimate responsibility-sensitive welfare weights for health that facilitate inequalityand inequity-sensitive policy evaluation. In a UK general population sample, 569 online experiment participants distribute constrained resources to determine the health of hypothetical individuals...

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Modeling inequity aversion in a dictator game with production

Rodríguez-Lara, Ismael; Moreno-Garrido, Luis - In: Games 3 (2012) 4, pp. 138-149

should only be rewarded for factors under their control. This fairness ideal does not hold subjects responsible for factors …

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Social preferences under risk : minimizing collective risk vs. reducing ex-post inequality

Gaudeul, Alexia - 2016

We refine the understanding of individual preferences across social lotteries, whereby the payoffs of a pair of subjects are exposed to random shocks. We find that aggregate behavior is ex-post and ex-ante inequality averse, but also that there is a wide variety of individual preferences and...

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Measuring tastes for equity and aggregate wealth behind the veil of ignorance

Heufer, Jan; Shachat, Jason M.; Xu, Yan - 2018

We propose an instrument to measure individuals' social preferences regarding equity and efficiency behind a veil of … whether the wealth distribution choice exhibits equity or efficiency preferring tastes. We report experiments using a within …-subject design testing the veracity of this instrument. We find clusters of equity preferring, efficiency preferring, and socially …

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