Inequality of Opportunity and Income Redistribution

Autores
Preuss, Marcel; Reyes, Germán J.; Somerville, Jason; Wu, Joy
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
documento de trabajo
Estado
versión enviada
Descripción
We examine how people redistribute income when there is uncertainty about the role luck plays in determining opportunities and outcomes. We elicit redistribution decisions from a U.S.- representative sample who observe worker outcomes and whether luck magnified workers’ effort (“lucky opportunities”) or determined workers’ income directly (“lucky outcomes”). We find that participants redistribute less and are less reactive to changes in the importance of luck in environments with lucky opportunities. Our findings have implications for models that seek to understand and predict redistribution attitudes, and help to explain the gap between lab evidence on support for redistribution and U.S. inequality trends.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
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Ciencias Económicas
Laboratorio
Comportamiento individual
Equidad, justicia, desigualdad
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Inequality of Opportunity and Income Redistribution
title Inequality of Opportunity and Income Redistribution
spellingShingle Inequality of Opportunity and Income Redistribution
Preuss, Marcel
Ciencias Económicas
Laboratorio
Comportamiento individual
Equidad, justicia, desigualdad
title_short Inequality of Opportunity and Income Redistribution
title_full Inequality of Opportunity and Income Redistribution
title_fullStr Inequality of Opportunity and Income Redistribution
title_full_unstemmed Inequality of Opportunity and Income Redistribution
title_sort Inequality of Opportunity and Income Redistribution
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Preuss, Marcel
Reyes, Germán J.
Somerville, Jason
Wu, Joy
author Preuss, Marcel
author_facet Preuss, Marcel
Reyes, Germán J.
Somerville, Jason
Wu, Joy
author_role author
author2 Reyes, Germán J.
Somerville, Jason
Wu, Joy
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
Laboratorio
Comportamiento individual
Equidad, justicia, desigualdad
topic Ciencias Económicas
Laboratorio
Comportamiento individual
Equidad, justicia, desigualdad
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv We examine how people redistribute income when there is uncertainty about the role luck plays in determining opportunities and outcomes. We elicit redistribution decisions from a U.S.- representative sample who observe worker outcomes and whether luck magnified workers’ effort (“lucky opportunities”) or determined workers’ income directly (“lucky outcomes”). We find that participants redistribute less and are less reactive to changes in the importance of luck in environments with lucky opportunities. Our findings have implications for models that seek to understand and predict redistribution attitudes, and help to explain the gap between lab evidence on support for redistribution and U.S. inequality trends.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
description We examine how people redistribute income when there is uncertainty about the role luck plays in determining opportunities and outcomes. We elicit redistribution decisions from a U.S.- representative sample who observe worker outcomes and whether luck magnified workers’ effort (“lucky opportunities”) or determined workers’ income directly (“lucky outcomes”). We find that participants redistribute less and are less reactive to changes in the importance of luck in environments with lucky opportunities. Our findings have implications for models that seek to understand and predict redistribution attitudes, and help to explain the gap between lab evidence on support for redistribution and U.S. inequality trends.
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