How should we think about Americans’ beliefs about economic mobility?
Recent evidence suggests that Americans’ beliefs about upward mobility are overly optimistic. Davidai and Gilovich (2015a), Kraus and Tan (2015), and Kraus (2015) all found that people overestimate the likelihood that a person might rise up the economic ladder, and underestimate the likelihood that...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2018-05-01
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| Series: | Judgment and Decision Making |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.sjdm.org/17/17911b/jdm17911b.pdf |