1984, 1990 and 1996 Surveys of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to the Social Security Administration's Summary …

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 …

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 …

intergenerational income correlation, a measure insensitive to changes in cross-sectional inequality that has implications for rank …, by 2000, the rate of intergenerational movement across the income distribution appears historically normal, but, as cross …

Survey of Income and Program Participation, to measure the intergenerational elasticity in earnings in the United States … family income has an even larger effect than fathers' earnings on children's future labor market success. The elasticity of …

-choice decisions to quantify both the amount of income risk that individuals face and the extent to which they have access to informal …-savings model, in which individuals both learn about the nature of their income process and partly insure shocks via informal … income growth rates, (iii) the precision with which individuals know their own income growth rates when they begin their …