Social Mobility and the Demand for Redistribution: The Poum Hypothesis

DOI10.1162/00335530151144078zbMath0987.91044OpenAlexW3125212060MaRDI QIDQ2752440

Roland Benabou, Efe A. Ok

Publication date: 13 March 2002

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://idei.fr/sites/default/files/medias/doc/wp/1999/9878.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

redistributionpoorprospect of upward mobility

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Voting theory (91B12) Consumer behavior, demand theory (91B42)

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