The paper studies the determinants of income distribution and growth in an overlapping generations economy ….Heterogeneity in income results from the distribution of human capital acrossindividuals in a non-degenerate way. The human capital …. First, we explore the effects oftechnological change in human capital formation, upon the distribution of income at each …

using the best available datasets. These datasets are: longitudinal income data from the Dunedin Study of the population of … proportion of variance in income or SES was explained by the economic situation of people's parents, indicating that other … explanatory variables are more important. The Dunedin Study results suggest that rates of intergenerational income mobility for …

. Theory implies the relationship between earnings of fathers and sons could be nonlinear, especially at the tails of the …

, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to …'s income. We also find some evidence for a positive interaction effect between post-birth environment and pre-birth factors. …