Tag Archives: Mobility

Hellmanzik, C. (2013). Does travel inspire? Evidence from the superstars of modern art. Empirical Economics, 45(1), 281-303.

This paper investigates whether travel increases the value of paintings produced by modern visual artists. The analysis is based on the 214 most prominent modern visual artists born between 1850 and 1945 and auction records of their paintings over the past 20 years. We find that artworks produced in the year of a journey are 7% …

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Alesina, A., &La Ferrara, E. (2005). Preferences for redistribution in the land of opportunities. Journal of public Economics, 89(5-6), 897-931.

This paper explores how individual preferences for redistribution depend on future income prospects. In addition to estimating the impact of individuals’ socioeconomic background and of their subjective perceptions of future mobility, we employ panel data to construct ‘objective’ measures of expected gains and losses from redistribution for different categories of individuals. We find that such …

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