Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich<p>Fairness Across the World <a href="https://openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/3184837/DP%2006.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/bi</span><span class="invisible">tstream/handle/11250/3184837/DP%2006.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y</span></a><br>"… the meritocratic <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/fairness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fairness</span></a> view is not universally accepted, and plays only a marginal role in many countries, especially outside of the Western world.<br>… <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/meritocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meritocracy</span></a> is particularly prominent in richer countries<br>… people’s belief about the source of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inequality</span></a> is crucial for whether they consider inequality in their society to be fair, but we also establish that these beliefs are particularly important in countries where people endorse the meritocratic fairness views<br>… It appears plausible that the meritocratic fairness view is conducive to economic <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/growth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>growth</span></a><br>… cross-country differences in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/redistribution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>redistribution</span></a> through taxes and transfers also are associated with differences in fairness views, with more redistribution in countries with a higher share of meritocrats, which highlights the importance of incorporating <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/heterogeneity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heterogeneity</span></a> in both fairness preferences and beliefs when studying the political economy of redistribution<br>… people’s view on redistribution is primarily driven by fairness considerations, the perception that inequality in their country is unfair, rather than <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/efficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>efficiency</span></a> considerations"<br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ExperimentalEcon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExperimentalEcon</span></a></p>