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 …

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 …

lifetime earnings inequality. This paper investigates to what extent such policies accomplish their objectives. A quantitative … theory of intergenerational mobility and lifetime earnings inequality is developed and parameterized to match selected … earnings mobility. Moreover, policies that reduce the private costs of education fail to reduce lifetime earnings inequality …

mechanism through which the pressure for redistribution can be highly non linear therefore providing an explanation as to why … more inequality can be associated with less, rather than more, redistributive taxation. Our framework displays multiple … pattern of income distribution and local versus social spillovers ratio under which inequality and segregation persist in the …