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The Quarterly Journal of Economics· 2026Q1

Fairness Across the World

Ingvild Almås, Alexander W. Cappelen, Erik Ø. Sørensen, Bertil Tungodden

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Global experiment (65,000+ individuals, 60 countries) shows merit-based inequality is accepted 85% more than luck-based inequality, while a 50% efficiency cost of redistribution only increases acceptance by 14%.

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Field: Political Science and International Relations

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