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Do Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Matter? Multigenerational Mobility in the US, 1910-2013
Ferrie, Joseph - 2016
Studies of US intergenerational mobility focus almost exclusively on the transmission of (dis)advantage from parents to children. Until very recently, the influence of earlier generations could not be assessed even in long-running longitudinal studies such as the Panel Study of Income Dynamics...
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Family Trees and Falling Apples : Historical Intergenerational Mobility Estimates for Women and Men
Buckles, Kasey S.; Price, Joseph; Ward, Zachary; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Efforts to document long-term trends in socioeconomic mobility in the United States have been hindered by the lack of large, representative datasets that include information linking parents to their adult children. This problem has been especially acute for women, who are more difficult to link...
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Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements in the Era of Unequal Growth
Azzimonti, Marina; Karpuska, Laura; Mihalache, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality. Using a political-economy model where parties bargain over taxes and …
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Gender and Underrepresented Minority Differences in Research Funding
Cruz Castro, Laura; Ginther, Donna K.; Sanz Menéndez, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National … Institutes of Health in the United States and substantially narrowed in Europe. Underrepresented minorities are less likely to …
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Frontier Culture : The Roots and Persistence of "Rugged Individualism" in the United States
Bazzi, Samuel - 2017
individualism and opposition to redistribution. This pattern cuts across known divides in the U.S., including urban-rural and north …
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The Moral Values of "Rugged Individualism"
Bazzi, Samuel; Fiszbein, Martín; Garcia, Maximiliano - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The United States is among the most individualistic societies in the world. However, unlike Western European individualism, which is imbued with moral universalism, America's "rugged individualism" is instead particularistic. We link this distinctive cultural configuration to the country's...
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An appraisal of the 1950 census income data
Garvy, George (contributor) - 1958
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The personal distribution of income and wealth
Smith, James D. D. (ed.) - Conference on Personal Distributions of Income and …; … - 1975
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Roots of Inequality
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning … differentials reflect variations in productive traits, a significant component of the differences in income inequality across …-of-Africa Migration. The roots of income inequality within the US population provide supporting evidence for the hypothesis. It suggests …
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