Misperceiving economic success: experimental evidence on meritocratic beliefs and inequality acceptance
Meritocratic beliefs are often invoked as justification of inequality. We provide evidence on how meritocratic beliefs are shaped by economic status and how they contribute to the moral justification of inequality. In a large-scale survey experiment in the US, we show that success causes a change in...
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CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute
September 2022
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| Schriftenreihe: | CESifo working paper
no. 9983 (2022) |
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| Verfasserangaben: | Dietmar Fehr, Martin Vollmann |
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