title: The development of concepts of economic and social inequality.
abstract: With increasing age, children explain wealth and poverty by referring to individual differences in work, effort, and intelligence rather than social-structural or political factors. Such explanations of inequality support a belief in a just world where the "losers" are viewed as obtaining their just due.
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Leahy
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D003071:Cognition; D004467:Economics; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012935:Social Justice; D014481:United States