@article {232856,
	title = {Intergenerational Mobility and Support for Redistribution},
	journal = {American Economic Review [also NBER Working Paper 23027]},
	volume = {108},
	number = {2},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {521-554},
	abstract = {Using new cross-country survey and\&nbsp;experimental data, we investigate how beliefs about intergenerational\&nbsp;mobility affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the\&nbsp;U.K., and the U.S.. Americans are more optimistic than Europeans about\&nbsp;social mobility. Our randomized treatment shows \&nbsp;pessimistic information\&nbsp;about mobility and increases support for redistribution, mostly for {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}equality of opportunity{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} policies. We find a strong\&nbsp;political polarization. Left-wing respondents are more pessimistic about\&nbsp;mobility, their preferences for redistribution are correlated with their\&nbsp;mobility\&nbsp;perceptions, and they support more redistribution after seeing\&nbsp;pessimistic information. None of these\&nbsp;apply to right-wing respondents,\&nbsp;possibly because they see the government as a {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}problem{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} and not as\&nbsp;the\&nbsp;{\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}solution.{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}\&nbsp;},
	url = {https://www.dropbox.com/s/wa76u5fvno2xgjm/Alesina_Stantcheva_Teso_Mobility.pdf?dl=0},
	author = {Alberto Alesina, Stefanie Stantcheva, Edoardo Teso}
}
