, fewer than 5% of black children grow up in such areas. Our findings suggest that reducing the black-white income gap will …We study the sources of racial disparities in income using anonymized longitudinal data covering nearly the entire U … on parent income, the black-white income gap is driven by differences in wages and employment rates between black and …

decomposing income shocks into group aggregate and idiosyncratic components, allowing us to measure the extent to which each … intergenerational structure of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We find that over 60% of shocks to household income are potentially …

ratio of the income elasticity of labor supply to the wage elasticity, holding fixed the degree of complementarity between … stochastic. Using a large set of existing estimates of wage and income elasticities, I find a mean estimate of g = 1. I also give …

choices over the life cycle. We start by analyzing the theoretical impact of income changes on consumption - highlighting the … contributions, distinguishing between papers that use only income data and those that use both income and consumption data. The … and identify the income process or the information set of the individuals. Second, one can assume that the income process …

We use administrative records on the incomes of more than 40 million children and their parents to describe three … income at the national level. The conditional expectation of child income given parent income is linear in percentile ranks …. On average, a 10 percentile increase in parent income is associated with a 3.4 percentile increase in a child's income …

utility model. I derive a formula for the coefficient of relative risk aversion (g) in terms of (1) the ratio of the income …

student performance in this region using unique international assessment data for sixth-grade students and their teachers. To … circumvent potential bias due to unobserved student heterogeneity, we exploit variation within students across math and reading …

amounts for boys and girls. However, the effect is mainly accounted for by children from relatively higher income backgrounds … positively correlated with the performance of low income students; however, the intervention did not affect these interactions …. Guided instruction can improve outcomes, but it is a challenge to reach the most deprived children …