This paper presents new evidence on intergenerational mobility in the top of the income and earnings distribution … the top, more so for income than for earnings. In the extreme top (top 0.1 percent) income transmission is remarkable with … fathers' income are, if anything, negatively associated with these variables. Wealth, on the other hand, has a significantly …

In this paper we look at the income distribution by cohort in Chile. We construct a synthetic panel from cross section … surveys and estimate the income distribution for cohorts born between 1902 and 1978. We then decompose the evolution of these … be the consequence of a flattening of the income-age profile and hence a reduction in the returns to experience. …

In this paper we use newly compiled top income share data to estimate common breaks and trends across countries over … seem to be as clear cut as previously suggested. Some continental European countries have had increases in top income … display a marked "Anglo-Saxon" pattern, with sharply increased top income shares. Unlike in the Anglo-Saxon countries, however …

improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program's potential longer-term consequences for the poverty … and inequality of these children. It adapts methods developed in DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) and incorporates …