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 …

between siblings' earnings reflect shared community and family background. These earnings relationships capture important …

results suggest there is moderate level of "stickiness" in income mobility across generations. Sons are found to be more …. There is virtually no evidence on intergenerational mobility in the context of low income countries in general and Sub …-Saharan Africa in particular. The paper thus provides valuable insights into issues of intergenerational mobility in a low income …

We present the first Australian estimates of intergenerational mobility that draw on direct observations of income from … two generations. Using panel data for three birth cohorts of young adults from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics … Australia survey, the estimated intergenerational income elasticity is 0.28. Correcting for attenuation bias raises this to 0 …

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 …

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 …

We examine how intergenerational income mobility responds to structural changes in a simple theoretical model of …

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 …