income measures (such as after-tax income) in both 1999 and 2005. The median household's economic well-being was lower in …

We use the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-being (LIMEW), the most comprehensive income measure available to … represents the first international comparison based on LIMEW, which differs from the standard measure of gross money income (MI …) in that it includes noncash government transfers, public consumption, income from wealth, and household production, and …

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 …

Lower intergenerational income mobility for blacks is a likely cause behind the persistent interracial gap in economic … status in the United States. However, few studies have analyzed black-white differences in intergenerational income mobility … traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles. We then introduce a new measure of upward mobility which …