Political ideology and the intragenerational prospect of upward mobility

Laméris, Maite D.; Garretsen, Harry; Jong‐A‐Pin, Richard

doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2020.101854

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“…The order of magnitude of these changes is very similar across countries. 25 While there is no significant effect on the reported perceived probability of making it from the bottom to the very top quintile according to the quantitative question, the qualitative questions do show significant effects of making it to the fourth and fifth quintile. The last column shows that there is a marked decrease of 3 percentage points in the fraction of people who say that they believe that "everybody has a fair chance of making it" (our so-called "American dream" question).…”

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Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution

Alesina

Stantcheva

Teso

2018

American Economic Review

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Using new cross-country survey and experimental data, we investigate how beliefs about intergenerational mobility affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Americans are more optimistic than Europeans about social mobility. Our randomized treatment shows pessimistic information about mobility and increases support for redistribution, mostly for “equality of opportunity” policies. We find strong political polarization. Left-wing respondents are more pessimistic about mobility: their preferences for redistribution are correlated with their mobility perceptions; and they support more redistribution after seeing pessimistic information. None of this is true for right-wing respondents, possibly because they see the government as a “problem” and not as the “solution.” (JEL D63, D72, H23, H24, J31, J62)

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Section: B First Stage: Treatment Effects On Perceptionsmentioning

confidence: 80%

“…The animated US version of the treatment is available at: https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/ SE/?SID=SV_5dxninfErZ246X3. All other survey links are available in the online Appendix 25. Results are available from the authors 26.…”

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Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution

Alesina

Stantcheva

Teso

2018

American Economic Review

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483

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“…García-Sánchez et al 2020) as it is expected that both the young and the old may demand more redistribution than people of middle age. To control for the potential effect of ideology (Alesina et al 2018;Lameris et al 2020), I include an indicator variable called 'Left', which is based on the self-classification of the respondent on an ideological spectrum. Jordan (2018) has found that the degree of political awareness a respondent has helps us to distinguish between views on redistribution that are pure guesswork, and views that reflect respondent's concerns accurately.…”

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Mobility rules: why New Zealanders oppose redistribution

Nel

2021

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online

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Observers have noted that New Zealanders are less inequality averse and less in favour of redistribution than one would expect given actual levels of income and wealth inequality in the country. Attempted explanations have been unsatisfying, partly because of a lack of an explicit comparative focus. This paper uses four waves of the World Value Survey (2000-2020) and compares New Zealand views with those of respondents in 18 other high-income OECD states. New Zealanders across the board are indeed outliers, but this is explained by the extensive experience of intergenerational educational mobility of successive NZ cohorts. New Zealanders also believe that their society is characterised by a large degree of equality of opportunity and this overrides any concern that they might have about inequality of outcomes. While there may also be other ideational and institutional factors to consider, a series of hierarchical binomial logit regressions confirm that experiences and perceptions of upward mobility must be part of any explanation of New Zealand idiosyncrasies.

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“…A number of studies confirm that upward income mobility expectations dampen individuals’ support for redistribution. Several studies use survey designs to test the POUM hypothesis without making a distinction between direct and indirect redistribution (Ravallion and Lokshin, 2000; Corneo and Grüner, 2002; Alesina and La Ferrara, 2005; Alesina and Guiliano, 2011; Buscha, 2012; Cojocaru, 2014; Andreoli and Olivera, 2020; Laméris, Garretsen and Jong‐A‐Pin, 2020). A few studies use experimental or mixed approaches, also without making a distinction between direct and indirect redistribution (Alesina, Stantcheva and Teso, 2018; Agranov and Palfrey, 2020).…”

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Willingness to pay for improved public education and public healthcare systems: the role of income mobility prospects

Wiese,

Eriksen

2024

Fiscal Studies

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Income mobility prospects affect individuals’ willingness to pay higher taxes, or give part of their income, to improve the public healthcare and public education systems. In line with the prospects of the upward mobility hypothesis, risk‐willing individuals who expect to move far up the socio‐economic ladder are less willing to pay compared with individuals who expect no upward transition. Consistent with a social insurance effect, risk‐averse individuals who hold modest upward prospects are more willing to pay compared with individuals without upward prospects. These findings are based on more than 19,000 observations from the third round of the Life in Transition Survey.

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Political ideology and the intragenerational prospect of upward mobility

Cited by 7 publications

References 29 publications

Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution

Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution

Mobility rules: why New Zealanders oppose redistribution

Willingness to pay for improved public education and public healthcare systems: the role of income mobility prospects

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