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Trickle-Down Economics, Merit, and Redistribution: An Experiment with the Poorest and Richest US Americans
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Despite growing income inequality, demand for redistribution has remained stagnant, which is particularly puzzling for the poor. We investigate whether attitudes toward “trickle-down” economics and preferences for fairness affect demand for redistribution. We involve US residents in the bottom (N = 1, 200) and top (N = 1, 146) 20% of the income distribution in experimental redistributive decisions from high-income real-life entrepreneurs to low-income recipients. (...)
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BRUNETTI, Roberto, GRIMALDA, Gianluca and MARINO, Maria. Trickle-Down Economics, Merit, and Redistribution: An Experiment with the Poorest and Richest US Americans. UB Economics – Working Papers. 2025 E25/485. [consulted: 7 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/224743