Social Preferences for Mobility: an Experimental Approach

Giulio Cinquanta ()
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Giulio Cinquanta: Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

No 2019: 23, Working Papers from Department of Economics, University of Venice "Ca' Foscari"

Abstract: In this paper we develop an experimental questionnaire to analyse people's social concern for different mobility dimensions. We consider two mobility scenarios: the wealth evolution among generations and periods. Moreover, we test whether people's social preferences change conditional to different sources of wealth inequality among generations (periods). We find that equality of opportunity in the mobility process has high social value in both mobility scenarios. However, people are not willing to tolerate high wealth inequality and fluctuation among generations (periods) in order to achieve equality of opportunity. Finally, the source of wealth inequality seems to affect differently people preferences for mobility in the two mobility scenarios

Keywords: Intergenerational Mobility; Intragenerational Mobility; Welfare Evaluation; Experimental Questionnaire (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D63 I30 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 68 pages
Date: 2019
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