observed for their parents in terms of some economic statuses (wages, income, work hours, and education). Additionally, we … Panel Study of Income Dynamics' data we find that married sons imitate their parents' household disparities more than …

We apply a variation of Bourguignon, Meléndez and Ferreira (2005) methodology to examine the extent to which income … a bi-parental household reduces income inequality, but in a small margin, in the range of 8 to 13 points of the Gini … part of income inequality may be associated with unobserved heterogeneity across individuals unrelated to circumstances of …

that the Latin American income distribution is highly unequal, profound differences in opportunities persist from one … individual’s control such as race, gender and parental income background) is estimated at around 40 %, which is high by …

-economic analyses of SOEP data show that income has a clear influence on donation behavior. Although the richest ten percent of … households contribute 37 percent of total donations, they donate less than the poorer income groups relative to their disposable … income. Despite this, the tax benefit from charitable giving is greater for richer households than for poorer because it is …

This study investigates the role of intergenerational mobility in explaining the native-immigrant income gap in Estonia …. We find that an increase of 1 percentile in parent income rank is associated with on average 0.2 percentile increase in … child income rank for both natives and second-generation immigrants. Results from a detailed Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition …