Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of misperception of income among all pairs of households …This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from … over-evaluation or under-evaluation of income in our data, although there is a slight over-evaluation on the part of …

The intergenerational elasticity of income is considered one of the best measures of the degree to which a society … the intergenerational elasticity of income. The model clarifies how the interaction between private and collective … elasticity of income are not particularly informative about fairness without taking into account differences in politico …

precision of the correlations themselves. -- Education ; income mobility ; income transmission ; intergenerational transmission …

This paper estimates the intergenerational income elasticity for urban China, paying careful attention to the potential … biases induced by income fluctuations and life cycle effects. Our preferred estimates are that the intergenerational income …

Family income is found to be more closely related to sons' earnings for a cohort born in 1970 compared to one born in … which relates mobility in measured family income/earnings to mobility in social class. Building on this framework we then … hypothesis that the observed decline in income mobility is a consequence of the poor measurement of permanent family income in …

Research on intergenerational income mobility has shown stronger persistence between parental and offspring's income in … association between parental income and these outcomes, and the associations are stronger in the UK than in Sweden. Therefore, we … weight and height are too weak to account for hardly any fraction of the UK-Sweden difference in intergenerational income …