Social Mobility, Inequality of Opportunity, and Redistribution Policy.

This paper extends models concerning social mobility and redistribution policy. The main differences from previous models are the behavioral approach this paper takes to model belief update as well as the consideration of acculturation process in social mobility. More importantly, this paper extends policy equilibrium analyses to a broader range of political institutions in democratic and non-democratic regimes, and emphasizes the role of inequality of opportunity in social mobility and political order in transitional regimes. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]