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Choosing the right parents : changes in the intergenerational transmission of inequality - between 1980 and the early 1990s
Levine, David I. (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001697071
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Revised estimates of intergenerational income mobility in the United States
Mazumder, Bhashkar (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
"Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001920632
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The growing importance of family and community : an analysis of changes in the sibling correlation in earnings
Mazumder, Bhashkar (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
"This study presents evidence that the correlation in brothers' earnings has risen in recent decades. We use two distinct cohorts of young men from the National Longitudinal Surveys and estimate that the correlation in earnings between brothers rose from 0.26 to 0.45. This suggests that family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001920916
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Fiscal Policy, Stabilization, and Growth: Prudence or Abstinence?
Werneck, Rogério L.F.; Irwin, Timothy; Sturzenegger, … - Inter-American Development Bank
Fiscal policy in Latin America has been guided primarily by short-term liquidity targets whose observance was taken as the main exponent of fiscal prudence, with attention focused almost exclusively on the levels of public debt and the cash deficit. Very little attention was paid to the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943424
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Beyond Facts: Understanding Quality of Life Title: Calidad de vida: Más allá de los hechos
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Duryea, Suzanne; Powell, Andrew; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Traditionally, the concept of quality of life has been viewed through objective indicators. Beyond Facts looks at quality of life through a new lens, namely, the perceptions of millions of Latin Americans. Using an enhanced version of the recently created Gallup World Poll that incorporates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943604
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A New Way of Monitoring the Quality of Urban Life
Powell, Andrew; Lora, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper proposes a methodology to resolve the problems that result from using a combination of objective and subjective information in evaluating urban quality of life. The paper further suggests techniques to identify and rank issues of potential importance for urban dwellers. In order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944422
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2013 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report: Rethinking Reforms: How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Escape Suppressed World Growth
Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
Global growth projections have waned since last year and growth may be suppressed below potential for several years to come. Lower global growth will, all things being equal, imply lower growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. At the same time, clear limits to the potential use of monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672948
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Choosing the right parents: changes in the intergenerational transmission of inequality between 1980 and the early 1990s
Levine, David I.; Mazumder, Bhashkar - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2002
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419875
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Nonparametric analysis of intergenerational income mobility with application to the United States
Bhattacharya, Debopam; Mazumder, Bhashkar - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419980
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Revised estimates of intergenerational income mobility in the United States
Mazumder, Bhashkar - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2003
Solon’s (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419991