Political Ideology and the Intragenerational Prospect of Upward Mobility

The Inequality Trap: How High Stakes Fuel Overestimation and Equality Aversion

“…The impact of mobility prospects has been studied with survey data (e.g. Alesina and La Ferrara, 2005;Bernasconi, 2006;Cojocaru, 2014;Laméris et al, 2020). While studies often find that preferences for redistribution decrease with greater mobility, the relation between perceived and actual mobility is often weak (Swan et al, 2017;Alesina et al, 2018;Cheng and Wen, 2019, and below).…”