A main focus in economics is how to design optimal policies in second-best situations, which
often requires a trade-off between giving some individuals more than they deserve, false …

We report from a study of how uncertainty about whether a given inequality reflects
performance or luck shapes distributive behaviour. We show theoretically that the reaction to …

Increasing inequality is commonly associated with social unrest and conflict between social
classes. This paper reports the results of a laboratory experiment to study the implications of …

We conduct three studies, employing diverse methodologies (a behavioral experiment, a
vignette experiment, and a norm elicitation experiment), to investigate when and how norm …

Inequality is often associated with negative societal consequences, but identifying a causal
relationship is a daunting task. We provide evidence on the impact of unjust economic …

We explore the psychological mechanisms underlying self-serving redistribution decisions
in an experimental setting. This self-serving bias in redistribution has been attributed not …

Attitudes toward fairness and redistribution differ along socioeconomic lines. To understand
their formation, we conduct a large-scale experiment on attention to merit and luck and the …

We examine whether the relationship between economic inequality and voluntary
cooperation is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use …

We study a dynamic variant of the die-under-the-cup task where players can repeatedly
misreport the outcomes of consecutive die rolls to earn more money, either under a …

Supporters of left-wing parties typically place more emphasis on redistributive policies than
right-wing voters. I investigate whether this difference in tolerating inequality is affected by …