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

Short Description: This is repetition of the same module which has already been part of SOEP-IS in 2019 to check for effects of the Corona pandemic on beliefs and fairness preferences with respect to occupational earnings (e.g. nurses or doctors).

Incentive: 5€ for each participant

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
Katrin Auspurg (Department of Sociology, Chair of Quantitative Empirical Research , LMU Munich), Andreas Peichl (Faculty of Economics, Professor of Macroeconomics and Public Finance , LMU Munich)	2023	tba	Coming with release in 2026		~4/2026	Economics	Experiment