Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution
通过跨国调查和实验，研究了法国、意大利、瑞典、英国和美国民众对代际流动性的信念如何影响再分配偏好，发现美国人更乐观，而悲观信息会增加对机会平等政策的支持，且存在左右翼政治极化。
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.”