"Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to …

contraceptive use is low. Nutritional deficiencies among pregnant women and children are prominent as half of them were moderately … 2012 and contraceptive use is low. Nutritional deficiencies among pregnant women and children are prominent as half of them …

the Maldives to 1.2 billion in India. The economies range from fragile and low-income to middle-income countries. SAR …

Maldives, a middle income country, is on track to meet most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while gender …

Sri Lanka is an island nation with a population of 20 million. In 2012, per capita income was US $2,923. From 2003 to …

This paper uses the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the General … Social Survey (GSS) to measure the elasticity of family income on men’s adult earnings in 1980 and the early 1990s. The study … finds a large and statistically significant increase in the importance of family income over time when comparing cohorts in …

the relationship between the incomes of parents and future earnings of their children. We focus on two different measures …This paper concerns the problem of inferring the effects of covariates on intergenerational income mobility, i.e. on … of mobility- (i) traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles over generations and (ii) a new …

Solon’s (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to be …