Rising inequalities and accelerating global environmental change pose two of the most
pressing challenges of the twenty-first century. To explore how these phenomena are linked …

A vast literature suggests that economic inequality has important consequences for politics
and public policy. Higher inequality is thought to increase demand for income redistribution …

We present results from a “corruption game”(a dictator game modified so that recipients can
take a side payment in exchange for accepting a reduction in the overall size of the pie) …

This paper shows that higher levels of perceived wage inequality are associated with a
weaker (stronger) belief into meritocratic (non-meritocratic) principles as being important in …

It is a long-standing puzzle whether or not changes in economic inequality lead to changes
in redistribution. However, there has been a lack of conclusive evidence about this …

This paper investigates empirically the link between the prospects of upward mobility and
preferences for redistribution using data for a large number of countries from the Life in …

Individual perceptions of (income or wealth) inequality have strong effects on their decisions
as economic agents or voters. It is therefore important to know more about the relation …

Biodiversity change and increasing within-country economic inequalities represent two of
the greatest global challenges of the Anthropocene. The most marginalized in society are …

Perception of inequality is important for the analysis of individuals' motivations and decisions
and for policy assessment. Despite the broad range of analytic gains that it grants, our …

In this paper we consider social cohesion primarily in terms of its absence–“the nature and
extent of social and economic divisions within society”(Easterly et al., 2006: 105). We use …