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 … the intergenerational persistence of the permanent component of income that is unrelated to social class. We reject the …

This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) for both sons and daughters, in Japan lies around .35, which is an intermediate value, by … Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys, collected between 1965 and 2005. Father's income is predicted on the …

, education, health and many income-generating processes. Furthermore, some of these detrimental effects are both large and long …

negative effects of comparison income. However, when we split the sample by age, we find quite different results for reference … income. The effects on life-satisfaction are positive and significant for those under 45, consistent with Hirschman's (1973 …. Thus for young respondents, reference income's signalling role, indicating potential future prospects, can outweigh …

in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data …; as are girls from low income families compared to middle and high income families. We use another data set to show that … who is diagnosed with an eating disorder is in accord with popular beliefs, suggesting that African American and low-income …