2024-03-28T21:04:45
113172
Thu Mar 28 21:04:46 EDT 2024
Replication data for: Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution
Alberto Alesina
Stefanie Stantcheva
Edoardo Teso
113172
https://doi.org/10.3886/E113172V1
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".
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