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Fairness in times of crisis : negative shocks, relative income and preferences for redistribution

Hochleitner, Anna - 2022

While economic crises tend to raise questions about a fair distribution of resources, less is known about whether and how fairness views themselves are affected by negative shocks. To answer this question, I conduct two experimental studies investigating the causal link between income shocks and...

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The grand experiment of communism : discovering the trade-off between equality and efficiency

Farvaque, Étienne; Mihailov, Alexander; Naghavi, Alireza - 2011

social preferences transmitted by ideology. We introduce inequality-averse and inefficiency-averse agents and analyze their …

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Lifting the veil of ignorance : survey experiments on preferences for wealth redistribution

Stumpf, Elisa; Übelmesser, Silke - 2024

overestimate their position reduce their aversion to inequality after learning their position, while those who underestimate their …We study beliefs about wealth inequality and preferences for wealth redistribution. For this, we conduct a large … for redistribution after learning about the shape of the wealth distribution. In contrast, older participants decrease …

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Redistribution, inequality, and efficiency with credit constraints : implications for South Africa

Getachew, Yoseph Yilma; Turnovsky, Stephen J. - In: Economic modelling 93 (2020), pp. 259-277

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Redistribution, inequality, and efficiency with credit constraints

Getachew, Yoseph Yilma; Turnovsky, Stephen J. - 2020

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Preferences for efficiency and redistribution : an experiment using charitable donations

Guth, Jake; Munro, David - 2021

Understanding the tradeoff between preferences for redistribution and efficiency is a central question in public finance. Existing experimental work examining this question formalize efficiency in “leaky bucket” choice tasks where possible redistribution schemes are exogeneously pre-selected...

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Experience of Social Mobility and Support for Redistribution : Beating the Odds or Blaming the System?

Weber, Nina - 2021

How does the experience of social mobility affect people's distributive preferences? Using cross-country survey data and a survey experiment, I examine the effects of experienced social mobility on support for redistribution. The results indicate an asymmetric relationship - experiencing...

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Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession

Glover, Andrew S. - 2015

In this paper we construct a stochastic overlapping-generations general equilibrium model in which households are subject to aggregate shocks that affect both wages and asset prices. We use a calibrated version of the model to quantify how the welfare costs of severe recessions are distributed...

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Wealth Redistribution in Bubbles and Crashes

An, Li - 2020

administrative data from China, we document a substantial increase in inequality of wealth held in risky assets by Chinese households …

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Experience of social mobility and support for redistribution : accepting or blaming the system?

Weber, Nina - 2023

Using cross-country survey data and a survey experiment, I examine the effects of experienced social mobility on support for redistribution. In line with the self-serving bias, those with negative mobility experiences 'blame the system' and extrapolate from their experience onto society, which...

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