Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/238226 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers in Economics and Statistics No. 2020-02
Publisher: 
University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon), Innsbruck
Abstract: 
This paper examines how perceptions of social mobility affect distributional preferences. We conduct a randomized information intervention in a large and heterogeneous sample of Germans to manipulate beliefs about social mobility. While the information treatment renders perceptions significantly more pessimistic, it changes neither revealed distributional preferences nor support for redistribution or education spending. The large sample size allows us to rule out economically meaningful treatment effects. One reason for this result seems to be that respondents do not link low mobility rates to the role of luck and inequality of opportunity.
Subjects: 
Social mobility
distributional preferences
inequality
survey experiment
JEL: 
C93
D31
H23
H24
H41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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