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MBA students are anti-merit

2025-10-01 19:56:57.207496+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Are Elites Meritocratic and Efficiency- Seeking? Evidence from MBA Students Marcel Preuss, Germán Reyes, Jason Somerville, Joy Wu. tl;dr: no.

We find that MBA students implement substantially more unequal earnings distributions than the average American, regardless of whether inequality stems from luck or merit. Their redistributive choices are also highly responsive to efficiency costs, with an effect that is an order of magnitude larger than that found in representative U.S. samples. Analyzing fairness ideals, we find that MBA students are less likely to be strict meritocrats than the broader population.

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