Replication Data for: The talent paradox: Why is it fair to reward talent but not luck?

This paper investigates how people differentiate between inequality caused by talent and inequality caused by luck in a large-scale study of the US population. We establish the talent puzzle by showing that Americans differentiate significantly between inequality due to luck and inequality due to talent. We show that this partly reflects that people consider talent to some extent to be under individual control, and partly that people consider individuals to have ownership of the fruits of their talent because they have acted on it. Our findings provide novel evidence on people's fairness views that shed light on the political debate on the acceptability of inequality in society.