Abstract
This research explicates a theoretical argument describing how structurally disadvantaged actors might come to view their outcomes as fair. Drawing from legitimacy theory and theories of distributive justice, I derive a hypothesis predicting that external, social forms of legitimacy will be positively related to perceptions of fairness of earned profits. I report the results from two experiments that isolate and test the theoretical argument. The first study illustrates that structurally advantaged actors report higher levels of fairness of their outcomes than disadvantaged actors and that the difference disappears when the structure that produces the outcomes is legitimate. The second study illustrates that the results are robust across operationalizations of legitimacy.
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