Brown Bag seminar in Economics | Johanna Mollerström
Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Johanna Mollerström, George Mason University, Virginia who will present "Fairness Preferences over Parental Wealth Transfer"
Abstract
We study experimentally how spectators decide how much of the wealth inequality between donors will be passed on to beneficiaries. We find spectators consider the parental link to justify limiting redistribution between beneficiaries. This is true even in the absence of an active choice by the parent to pass down wealth to their child. While spectators consider inheritors of wealth to be less entitled to it than those whose wealth was gained through work, they are still rewarded for the merit of those from whom they inherit money. Our results have implications for the perpetuity of inequality across generations.
Johanna Mollerström is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia.
This seminar takes place at Stockholm School of Economics, Sveavägen 65, in room A336.
Please contact kathrine.abelson@hhs.se if you have any questions.