腾讯会议，会议号：579-890-145

题目：They Never Had a Chance: Unequal Opportunities and Fair Redistributions

内容摘要：

A meritocratic fairness ideal is generally believed to regard income inequality as fair if it stems from performance differentials rather than luck. In this study, we present experimental evidence showing that merit judgments are shaped by the source of performance differentials while holding fixed the underlying impact on willingness to perform. Inspired by real-world phenomena which generate inequality, we investigate two types of unequal opportunities that impact performance: educational quality and employment opportunity. Contrary to some previous findings that merit judgements are often insensitive to unequal circumstances, we find that individuals are more inclined to split resources equally when the performance differential involves either type of unequal opportunity. We also find that when participants were given the option to expend personal effort to reveal information about the presence of unequal opportunity, a substantial number of them declined to do so, but held optimistic beliefs about the social norm of seeking such information. These findings enrich our understanding of the factors that lead individuals to support income redistribution, while also obtaining an assessment regarding to what degree redistributing third-party decision-makers are vested in these choices.

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董璐老师现任南京审计大学泽尔腾经济学实验室教授。她的研究领域包括行为经济学和实验经济学。她对合作，公平，竞争等话题都很感兴趣。她曾经在Management Science, Economic Journal, Games and Economic Behavior 等多本知名期刊上发表过文章。她也曾经主持过国家自然科学基金青年项目。