Replication data for: Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Alberto Alesina; Stefanie Stantcheva; Edoardo Teso

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Alesina, Alberto, Stantcheva, Stefanie, and Teso, Edoardo. Replication data for: Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113172V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary 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".

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      D63 Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
      D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
      H23 Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
      H24 Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; includes inheritance and gift taxes
      J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
      J62 Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion


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