Movin’ on up? A survey experiment on mobility enhancing policies

We use a nationwide survey experiment in the United States to measure whether information on intergenerational economic mobility or policy-specific arguments influence support for six pro-mobility policies advocated by political entrepreneurs. We find the information treatments do not affect support...

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Published inEuropean Journal of Political Economy Vol. 74; p. 102172
Main Authors Barton, Jared, Pan, Xiaofei
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier Science Ltd 01.09.2022
Subjects
Advocacy
Entrepreneurs
Information
Intergenerational mobility
Mobility
Political economy
Polls & surveys
Respondents
Robustness
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Summary:We use a nationwide survey experiment in the United States to measure whether information on intergenerational economic mobility or policy-specific arguments influence support for six pro-mobility policies advocated by political entrepreneurs. We find the information treatments do not affect support, but the argument treatments significantly increase support for three of the policies. We also include a behavioral measure by allowing respondents the opportunity to write their U.S. Senators. We find argument treatments significantly increase the likelihood that letters address economic mobility and significantly promote advocacy for that policy in the letter, but no increase in advocacy from the information treatments. Our results persist after controlling for a variety of robustness measures.
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ISSN:0176-2680
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DOI:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102172