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We are grateful to Ronald Wecznik for research assistance. We also thank Reinhard John and Katharina Pabel at the University of Bonn for allowing us to use their class time to perform this questionnaire study with their students. Helpful comments by the anonymous referees are also gratefully acknowledged. II Abstract. We report the results of a questionnaire study on the fair distribution of indivisible goods. We collected data from three different subject pools, first- and second-year students majoring in economics, law students, and advanced economics students with some background knowledge of fairness theories. The purpose of this study is to assess the empirical relevance of various fairness criteria such as inequality aversion, the utilitarian principle of maximizing the sum of individual payoffs, the Rawlsian “maximin ” principle of maximizing the payoff of the worst-off individual, and the criterion of envy-freeness (in the sense of Foley, 1967)