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 …

We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons …. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved … income elasticity of 0.276, while our twin-based intergenerational income elasticity is 0.12. This is close to the estimate …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In this paper, we analyze how kinship among family members affects intergenerational cooperation in a public good game … game in three different treatments: one in which three members of the same family play each other (family), a second with … the youth and two non-family members but preserving the previous generational structure (intergenerational), and a third …