Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the … their effort, it will chose low redistribution and low taxes. In equilibrium effort will be high, the role of luck limited … income inequality and choices of redistributive policies …

The poor favor redistribution and the rich oppose it, but that is not all. Social mobility may make some of today …'s poor into tomorrow's rich and since redistributive policies do not change often, individual preferences for redistribution … should depend on the extent and the nature of social mobility. We estimate the determinants of preferences for redistribution …

Even relatively poor people oppose high rates of redistribution because of the anticipation that they or their children … in large-scale expropriation and highly progressive redistribution. But is it compatible with everyone -- especially the …

redistribution in democratic societies. An infinite-horizon theoretical model is developed, and the properties of the equilibrium tax … rate and the degree of after-tax inequality are characterized. Mobility and stickiness of tax policy are both negatively … two forces are complementary. Tax persistence leads to higher levels of post-tax inequality, for any amount of mobility …

affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the U.K., and the U.S.. Americans are more optimistic than … redistribution, mostly for "equality of opportunity" policies. We find a strong political polarization. Left-wing respondents are … more pessimistic about mobility, their preferences for redistribution are correlated with their mobility perceptions, and …

overall lifetime acquisition of human capital. We also review the intergenerational literature and examine the macroeconomic …