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The mis-measurement of permanent earnings: new evidence from Social Security earnings data
Mazumder, Bhashkar - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2001
1984, 1990 and 1996 Surveys of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to the Social Security Administration's Summary …
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The growing importance of family and community: an analysis of changes in the sibling correlation in earnings
Levine, David I.; Mazumder, Bhashkar - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2003
This study presents evidence that the correlation in brothers’ earnings has risen in recent decades. We use two distinct cohorts of young men from the National Longitudinal Surveys and estimate that the correlation in earnings between brothers rose from 0.26 to 0.45. This suggests that family...
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What similarities between siblings tell us about inequality in the U.S.
Mazumder, Bhashkar - In: Chicago Fed Letter (2004) Dec
The author finds that about half of earnings inequality in the U.S. can be explained by family and community influences during childhood. He also finds that these influences have become more important in recent decades.
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Earnings mobility in the US: a new look at intergenerational inequality
Mazumder, Bhashkar - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2001
This study uses a new data set that contains the Social Security earnings histories of parents and children in the 1984 … family income has an even larger effect than fathers' earnings on children's future labor market success. The elasticity of … Survey of Income and Program Participation, to measure the intergenerational elasticity in earnings in the United States …
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Birth cohort and the black-white achievement gap: The roles of health soon after birth
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2009
One literature documents a significant, black-white gap in average test scores, while another finds a substantial narrowing of the gap during the 1980's, and stagnation in convergence after. We use two data sources - the Long Term Trends NAEP and AFQT scores for the universe of applicants to the...
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Health capital and the prenatal environment: The effect of maternal fasting during pregnancy
Almond, Douglas; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2009
We use the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as a natural experiment in fasting and fetal health. In Michigan births 1989-2006, we and prenatal exposure to Ramadan among Arab mothers results in lower birthweight and reduced gestation length. Exposure to Ramadan in the first month of gestation is...
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The long-run effects of the 1930s HOLC "redlining" maps on place-based measures of economic opportunity and socioeconomic success
Aaronson, Daniel; Faber, Jacob; Hartley, Daniel; … - 2020
We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps on census tract-level measures of socioeconomic status and economic opportunity from the Opportunity Atlas (Chetty et al. 2018). We use two identification strategies to identify the long-run effects...
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