Redistributive Preferences

Just Cheap Talk? Investigating Fairness Preferences in Hypothetical Scenarios

The measurement of preferences often relies on surveys in which individuals evaluate hypothetical scenarios. This paper proposes and validates a novel factorial survey tool to measure fairness preferences. We specifically examine whether a …

Experimental Evidence on Attitudes Toward Inequality and Fairness

Many of our everyday life experiences suggest that humans are social individuals who care about themselves and others. Yet, for a long time, the economic discipline has focused on modeling the purely self-interested "homo economicus". In this review, …

(Un)Fair inequality in the labor market: A global study

How do citizens of different societies perceive the fairness of inequalities? Answering this question is key in order to interpret the stability of existing inequalities, to grasp political polarization, and to inform the design of policies that …