Replication Data for: Acceptance of inequality between children: Largescale experimental evidence from China and Norway

In a novel large-scale experiment, we study how adults in two societies, Shanghai (China) and Norway, make real distributive decisions involving children. We find that acceptance of inequality between children increases with the age of the children, is affected by the source of inequality and the cost of redistribution, and is lower than acceptance of inequality between adults. We document a large cross-societal difference in inequality acceptance: adults in Shanghai implement twice as much inequality between children compared with adults in Norway. Finally, we show that the willingness to accept inequality between children is predictive of attitudes to child policies.

本研究依托一项新颖的大规模实验，探究中国上海与挪威两地的成年群体如何针对儿童做出真实的分配决策。研究发现，儿童间的不平等接受度会随儿童年龄增长而提升，同时受不平等产生的根源与再分配成本的影响，且该接受度低于成人之间的不平等接受度。我们观测到两地在不平等接受度上存在显著的跨社会差异：上海的成年群体针对儿童群体实施的不平等程度是挪威成年群体的两倍。最后，本研究证实，儿童间不平等的接受意愿可用于预测个体对儿童相关政策的态度。