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<p>This paper investigates the relationship between the expectations of economic mobility and support for tax-financed provision of a broad range of public goods using data from the Life in Transition Survey, which covers 37 countries across Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa. The analysis demonstrates that individuals who expect themselves or their children to be upwardly mobile have a higher willingness to pay for public goods, and this correlation is robust to different formulations of mobility expectations and persists over a decade, encompassing both stable and post-crisis economic environments. Across the Europe and Central Asia region, these patterns are strongest outside of the EU, where under-provision public goods is more pronounced.</p>

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Perceptions of Economic Mobility and Willingness to Pay for Public Goods

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    2025年8月22日

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  • Alexandru Cojocaru,
  • Michael Lokshin,
  • Iván Torre

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This paper investigates the relationship between the expectations of economic mobility and support for tax-financed provision of a broad range of public goods using data from the Life in Transition Survey, which covers 37 countries across Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa. The analysis demonstrates that individuals who expect themselves or their children to be upwardly mobile have a higher willingness to pay for public goods, and this correlation is robust to different formulations of mobility expectations and persists over a decade, encompassing both stable and post-crisis economic environments. Across the Europe and Central Asia region, these patterns are strongest outside of the EU, where under-provision public goods is more pronounced.