| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-06-02T15:33:17Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2022-12-06T11:00:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Cappelen, Alexander Wright Moene, Karl Ove (Kalle) Skjelbred, Siv-Elisabeth Tungodden, Bertil . The merit primacy effect. Economic Journal. 2022 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10852/102417 | |
| 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. | |
| dc.description.abstract | The merit primacy effect | |
| dc.language | EN | |
| dc.title | The merit primacy effect | |
| dc.title.alternative | ENEngelskEnglishThe merit primacy effect | |
| dc.type | Journal article | |
| dc.creator.author | Cappelen, Alexander Wright | |
| dc.creator.author | Moene, Karl Ove (Kalle) | |
| dc.creator.author | Skjelbred, Siv-Elisabeth | |
| dc.creator.author | Tungodden, Bertil | |
| dc.date.embargoenddate | 2024-11-21 | |
| cristin.unitcode | 185,17,6,0 | |
| cristin.unitname | Økonomisk institutt | |
| cristin.ispublished | true | |
| cristin.fulltext | original | |
| cristin.fulltext | postprint | |
| cristin.qualitycode | 2 | |
| dc.identifier.cristin | 2089294 | |
| dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation | info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=Economic Journal&rft.volume=&rft.spage=&rft.date=2022 | |
| dc.identifier.jtitle | Economic Journal | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 133 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 651 | |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 951 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 970 | |
| dc.identifier.pagecount | 20 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueac082 | |
| dc.type.document | Tidsskriftartikkel | |
| dc.type.peerreviewed | Peer reviewed | |
| dc.source.issn | 0013-0133 | |
| dc.type.version | AcceptedVersion | |
| dc.relation.project | NFR/250170 | |
| dc.relation.project | NFR/236995 | |
| dc.relation.project | NFR/262675 | |