Measuring Preferences for Income Equality and Income Mobility
通过生成与信念无关的统计量来量化美国居民对收入平等和流动性的偏好，发现居民愿意牺牲平均收入以减少不平等或增加流动性，且不同政治派别的偏好存在差异。
Abstract This paper quantifies preferences for income equality and mobility by generating statistics that are uncorrelated with beliefs and can be interpreted as marginal rates of substitution (MRS). All things being equal, U.S. residents are willing to reduce average income by $2,744 to reduce the 90/10 income inequality ratio one unit, and $1,228 to increase income mobility from the bottom quintile one percentage point. Democrats and Independents have similar preferences for both social variables, while Republicans have an MRS that is about two-thirds that of Democrats and Independents for both income inequality and mobility.