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Choosing the right parents: changes in the intergenerational transmission of inequality between 1980 and the early 1990s
Levine, David I.; Mazumder, Bhashkar - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2002
This paper uses the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the General … Social Survey (GSS) to measure the elasticity of family income on men’s adult earnings in 1980 and the early 1990s. The study … finds a large and statistically significant increase in the importance of family income over time when comparing cohorts in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419875
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Nonparametric analysis of intergenerational income mobility with application to the United States
Bhattacharya, Debopam; Mazumder, Bhashkar - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2007
This paper concerns the problem of inferring the effects of covariates on intergenerational income mobility, i.e. on … of mobility- (i) traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles over generations and (ii) a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419980
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Revised estimates of intergenerational income mobility in the United States
Mazumder, Bhashkar - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2003
Solon’s (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419991
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Intergenerational economic mobility in the U.S., 1940 to 2000
Aaronson, Daniel; Mazumder, Bhashkar - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2005
intergenerational income correlation, a measure insensitive to changes in cross-sectional inequality that has implications for rank …, by 2000, the rate of intergenerational movement across the income distribution appears historically normal, but, as cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419993
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Does Money Make People Right-Wing and Inegalitarian? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2014
The causes of people’s political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on lottery winners. Comparing people before and after a lottery windfall, we show that winners tend to switch towards support for a right-wing political party and to become less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757446
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Black–White Differences in Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the U.S.
Mazumder, Bhashkar - In: Economic Perspectives (2014) Q I, pp. 1-18
In recent decades, blacks have experienced substantially less upward mobility and substantially more downward mobility from one generation to the next than whites. These results are shown to be highly robust to a variety of measurement issues. The author examines rates of intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765417
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Does Money Make People Right-Wing and Inegalitarian? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The causes of people's political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on lottery winners. Comparing people before and after a lottery windfall, we show that winners tend to switch towards support for a right-wing political party and to become less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739414
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Estimating the Influence of Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect on Later Income Using Sibling Fixed-Effects
De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010705552
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Estimating the Influence of Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect on Later Income Using Sibling Fixed-Effects
Neve, Jan-Emmanuel De; Oswald, Andrew J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592543
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Estimating the Influence of Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect on Later Income Using Sibling Fixed-Effects
Neve, Jan-Emmanuel De; Oswald, Andrew J. - CESifo - 2012
The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person’s well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010595387