Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/330728 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Citation: 
[Journal:] The Journal of Economic Inequality [ISSN:] 1573-8701 [Volume:] 23 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Springer US [Place:] New York, NY [Year:] 2025 [Pages:] 667-693
Publisher: 
Springer US, New York, NY
Abstract: 
We examine the role of need satisfaction in non-comparative justice ratings of endowments with goods. As normative approaches, we discuss utilitarianism, prioritarianism, and three versions of sufficientarianism. Using a vignette experiment with 109 participants, we elicit the participants' justice ratings of endowments with living space and estimate their justice evaluation functions. We show that a need context increases the prevalence of prioritarianistic and sufficientarianistic justice ratings. Moreover, a need threshold also changes the utilitarians' justice evaluation functions significantly.
Subjects: 
Basic Needs
Justice Principles
Prioritarianism
Sufficientarianism
Utilitarianism
Vignette Experiment
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