Luck or rights? An experiment on preferences for redistribution following inheritance of opportunity

• Main Authors: Lekfuangfu, Warn N., Powdthavee, Nattavudh, Riyanto, Yohanes Eko
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::General; Inequality of Opportunity; Fairness
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171335
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We conducted an experiment to examine whether individuals are more likely to support the redistribution of income stemming from the inequality of inherited opportunities. Specifically, we randomly and anonymously paired two strangers in a lab setting to determine whether the source of the opportunit...