Shallow meritocracy
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Keywords
Meritocracy; fairness; responsibility; attitudes towards inequality; redistribution; social preferences; inference; uncertainty; counterfactual thinking;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2023-12-04 (Experimental Economics)
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