Download or read book Preferences for Redistribution in the Land of Opportunities written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. presents an abstract of the May 2001 working paper entitled "Preferences for Redistribution in the Land of Opportunities," written by Alberto Alesina and Eliana La Ferrara. The full text of the paper may be purchased online. This paper estimates the determinants of preferences for redistribution using individual level data from the United States, and finds that individual support for redistribution is negatively affected by social mobility.