| dc.contributor.author | Cappelen, Alexander Wright | |
| dc.contributor.author | Moene, Karl Ove (Kalle) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Skjelbred, Siv-Elisabeth | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tungodden, Bertil | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-11T09:13:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-11T09:13:04Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2022-12-06T11:00:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Economic Journal. 2022, . | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0013-0133 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3157771 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A long history in economics going back to Adam Smith has argued that people give primacy to merit – rather than luck – in distributive choices. We provide a theoretical framework formalizing the merit primacy effect, and study it in a novel experiment where third-party spectators redistribute from high-earners to low-earners in situations where both merit and luck determine earnings. We identify a strong and consistent merit primacy effect in the spectator behaviour. The results shed new light on inequality acceptance in society, by showing how just a little bit of merit can make people significantly more inequality accepting. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The merit primacy effect | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.title | The merit primacy effect | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | The merit primacy effect | en_US |
| dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
| dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
| dc.description.version | acceptedVersion | en_US |
| dc.source.pagenumber | 20 | en_US |
| dc.source.journal | Economic Journal | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/ej/ueac082 | |
| dc.identifier.cristin | 2089294 | |
| dc.relation.project | Norges forskningsråd: 250170 | en_US |
| dc.relation.project | Norges forskningsråd: 236995 | en_US |
| dc.relation.project | Norges forskningsråd: 262675 | en_US |
| cristin.ispublished | true | |
| cristin.fulltext | original | |
| cristin.fulltext | postprint | |
| cristin.qualitycode | 2 | |
