How should we think about Americans’ beliefs about economic mobility?

Recent evidence suggests that Americans’ beliefs about upward mobility are overly optimistic. Davidai & Gilovich (2015a), Kraus & 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 t...

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Main Authors: Shai Davidai, Thomas Gilovich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2018-05-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500007737/type/journal_article