This paper is the first to analyze intergenerational economic mobility based on sibling correlations in permanent …

correlations and intergenerational correlations in self-reported life satisfaction, satisfaction with household income, job …

Motivated by contradictory evidence on intergenerational mobility in Germany, I present a cross-country comparison of … Germany and the US, reassessing the question of whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany than the US. I can … distribution. In contrast, the analysis shows that mobility is higher for the sons at the lowest quartile of the sons' earnings …

increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between these …

the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical … regions, consistent with complementarity in spouses' leisure in the US versus substitution in spouses' household production in …