What Do People Believe That Others (Should) Earn? Multifactorial Survey Experiments on Beliefs About Actual and Fair Earnings

Short Description: This module addresses the topic of individuals’ inequality perceptions with respect to gross and net earnings. Not only can we assess respondents’ beliefs what different groups of individuals earn, but also their beliefs about earnings returns to a wide range of relevant characteristics, such as occupations, working hours, family status, and gender: Do respondents experience particular groups to be over- or underpaid (e.g. highly educated men in Western Germany, or single mothers in part-time work)?

Methodological Details: Respondents are asked to evaluate short descriptions (vignettes) of hypothetical individuals that differ in experimentally varied characteristics, such as their working hours, family status, gender, and occupations. Specifically, in a first step respondents are asked whether the gross and net incomes of these individuals are realistic or whether they are unrealistically low or high. In a second step, we ask the respondents to assess whether the gross and net incomes are fair (or unfairly too low or high).

Contact	Syear	Respondents	Dataset	Variables	Availability	Field	Method	Replication
Prof. Dr. Katrin Auspurg (Department of Sociology, Chair of Quantitative Empirical Research , LMU Munich), Prof. Dr. Andreas Peichl (Faculty of Economics, Professor of Macroeconomics and Public Finance , LMU Munich)	2019	1990	inno	ivv01a, ivvintrobsp, ivv1region, ivv2stell, ivv2leistung, ivv3beruf, ivv1kinder, ivv2compare, ivv2beruf, ivv1famstand, ivv3region, ivv2sex, ivv1stell, ivv3leistung, ivv02a, ivv3compare, ivv2kinder, ivv3stell, ivv01b, ivv1arbzeit, ivv3sex, ivv1leistung, ivv_id, ivv1brutt, ivv1beruf, ivv02b, ivv2arbzeit, ivv2region, ivv1sex, ivv3brutt, ivv2brutt, ivv2famstand, ivv3arbzeit, ivv03a, ivv03b, ivv1compare, ivv3famstand, ivv3kinder, im_ivv, ivvp6	6/2022	Economics	Experiment