TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Wiese, Juliane V.
AU  - Powdthavee, Nattavudh
AU  - Yeo, Jonathan
AU  - Riyanto, Yohanes E.
        TI  - Through the Looking Glass: Transparency about Others' Luck and Effort Enhances Redistribution
        PY  - 2023/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15909
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15909
        AB  - How do we persuade people to part with money they feel they have rightly earned? We conducted a dyadic experiment (N=1,986) where luck determined which of the players' performance counted toward winning the game. Despite luck playing a large part, we found strong evidence of justified deservingness among the winners. The better they performed in the task, the less they redistributed to their nonwinning partner. However, in treatments where performance was transparent, winners significantly increased redistribution to nonwinners who performed similarly well. We find that transparency can effectively alter redistributive preferences even when people feel fully deserving of their income.
        KW  - luck
KW  - efforts
KW  - survivalship bias
KW  - redistribution
KW  - inequality
KW  - deservingness
        ER  -