Fairness Concerns and Demand for Redistribution: Experimental Evidence from South Africa (VIRTUAL)
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Patrizio Piraino
Director, Ford Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity
Associate Professor, Keough School of Global Affairs
How far are people willing to go to reduce inequality and ensure a fair outcome? This talk looks at a laboratory experiment that addresses this question, where a third-party stakeholder is paired with two players and makes a series of redistributive decisions over the income they earn from work on a task. The redistributive decisions carry varying personal costs for the stakeholder and the initial pay inequality between players is also varied. Also randomly varied is the source of inequality: lottery or productivity. Learn about the experiment and its outcomes and implications with the new director of the Ford Program, Patrizio Piraino.