The Effects of Status Mobility and Group Identity on Trust

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Intergenerational income mobility and economic freedom

“…This would require taking the economic freedom measures which are most reliably estimated from 1970 onwards and extending them both further back in time and across a larger number of countries. However, our results should be seen as a crucial call for future research given that social mobility is strongly tied to democratic persistence (Acemoglu et al, 2018;Schotte, 2021) and social cohesion (Suchon & Villeval, 2019).…”