Intergenerational persistence estimates are susceptible to several well-documented biases arising from income … measurement, and it has become standard practice to construct income measures to mitigate these. However, remaining bias can lead … literature. We show with theory and simulations that even using a 30-year income average can result in a small positive spurious …

alternative approach is to use the accounting identity that total household spending is equal to income plus capital gains minus … on income and wealth to other administrative data with information on financial and real estate transactions. Using this … second is a study of the transmission of income shocks to household consumption. …