An agenda for real-world fairness research to inform policy and organizations

How Policy Design Affects Perceptions of Beneficiaries and Support for Welfare

Most of the public supports welfare policies in the abstract, but many hold deep misgivings about the deservingness of welfare recipients, driving down support for specific policies. Welfare policies are often designed to mitigate these concerns by restricting access to benefits, but it is unclear to what effect. Acc...

Weak Foundations: Material Interests, Fairness Beliefs, and Support for Free Markets in Latin America

Why do some citizens support free market economies whereas others do not? Classic theories in political economy emphasize two broad explanations—material self‐interest and fairness‐related values—as key determinants of market attitudes. Using harmonized survey data from 18 Latin American countries, we put these persp...

Why people give to their governments: The role of outcome-oriented norms

Algorithmic Fairness, Meritocracy, and Institutional Justice

Governing Party Issue Ownership and How Citizens Assess Conditions

It is well-documented that Americans perceive conditions more favorably when their preferred party is in power. This study considers a second, more subtle, but potentially impactful partisan bias: that the governing party’s policy reputations lead voters to perceive better conditions on the issues it “owns.” In US poli...

Against laissez-faire democracy

This paper argues that the standard rationale for regulating markets also applies to democracy. Economists and philosophers commonly defend government intervention in markets on the grounds that markets predictably suffer from failures such as public goods problems, information asymmetries, principal–agent dilemmas,...