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Jeffrey Yusof @jyusof.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

In this paper, co-authored with Simona Sartor, we design an experiment that creates income inequality between workers with different skills. By randomly matching workers with buyers who require specific skills, we generate income inequalities driven by *market luck*. [2/14]

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Jeffrey Yusof @jyusof.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

How do people perceive these inequalities? How do they redistribute earnings between workers? Our main outcome variable is the redistributive choices of nearly 2,000 subjects from the general U.S. population, who act as third-party spectators. [3/14]

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Jeffrey Yusof @jyusof.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

In our control treatment, there are no buyers, and income is determined by a coin flip - *brute luck *. Key points: 1. In both treatments, which worker receives the high income is entirely random. 2. All workers provide the same level of effort. [4/14]

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