importance of luck for success, and how this mediates their meritocratic beliefs and acceptance of inequality. We randomly assign …

Three determining factors for economic inequality are self-chosen effort, self-chosen risk, and external circumstances … setting where inequality is due to a choice over effort-provision and a choice over risk-taking. While the resulting … inequality is mostly seen as fair, around 10% of third-party redistribution decisions are in line with a fairness norm that only …

inequity, whether across states of world (uncertainty), across individuals (inequality) and across generations …

Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome …

amounts of resources, this inherited inequality may be considered simultaneously fair and unfair from a meritocratic … standpoint. We develop a theoretical framework and run a preregistered survey experiment with about 550 subjects representative … of the US population to investigate how people resolve this dilemma. In the experiment, impartial spectators redistribute …

We study all theories of justice that disentangle ethical views on intergenerational discounting and intergenerational … inequality. Each “modular” social welfare function is uniquely identified by a time-discounting function—capturing attitudes … toward time—and an aggregator function— capturing attitudes toward inequality. Our axiomatic characterization identifies the …