• The Consequences of Inequality: Beliefs and Redistributive Preferences 

      Lobeck, Max; Støstad, Morten Nyborg (DP SAM;17/2023, Working paper, 2023-10)
      What matters for individuals’ preferences for redistribution? In this paper we show that consequentialist beliefs about inequality – beliefs about how economic inequality changes the crime rate or the quality of democratic ...
    • Fairness Beliefs Affect Perceived Economic Inequality 

      Støstad, Morten Nyborg (DP SAM;22/2023, Working paper, 2023-12)
      This paper establishes a causal link from fairness beliefs to perceived economic inequality. I conduct an experiment where participants are asked to estimate various income inequality measures of hypothetical societies. ...