Misperceiving economic success: experimental evidence on meritocratic beliefs and inequality acceptance
Most people tend to equate success with merit, a tendency that is particularly pronounced among conservatives. However, in practice it is exceedingly difficult to discern the relative impact of luck and effort to economic success. Based on a large-scale online study that samples the general US popul...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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Heidelberg
Heidelberg University, Department of Economics
[2020]
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| Series: | AWI discussion paper series
no. 695 (November 2020) |
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AWI discussion paper series (no. 695 (November 2020))
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| DOI: | 10.11588/heidok.00029071 |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/29071/1/Fehr_Vollmann_2020_dp695.pdf Resolving-System, kostenfrei: https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00029071 Resolving-System, kostenfrei: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/235018 Resolving-System, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-290719 
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| Author Notes: | Dietmar Fehr, Martin Vollmann |
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