. Christiansen -- Schooling, intelligence, and income in America / Orley Ashenfelter and Cecilia Rouse -- Does schooling raise …

This paper develops a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility and welfare …. Individual income is assumed to follow a stochastic process with two (unobserved) components, an i.i.d. component representing … measurement error or transitory income shocks and an AR(1) component representing persistent changes in income. We use a tractable …

This paper provides evidence on the degree and patterns of intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban … Chile. We find intergenerational income elasticities for Greater Santiago in Chile in the range of 0.52 to 0.54. This is … income at the two extremes of the income distribution, which is more accentuated at the top centiles of the distribution. We …

This is the first paper that studies the effects of including non-monetary income from housing (imputed rent) in the … measure of income on intergenerational income mobility. Using national panel data sets for Australia, the United States and …-regional comparisons of intergenerational income mobility may be misleading, especially using tax data as imputed rent is rarely taxed …

We use a large panel of federal income tax data to investigate intragenerational income mobility in the United States … income taxes stabilize or destabilize post-tax income changes relative to pre-tax changes. We find a relatively high degree … of income mobility, with almost half of workers exhibiting earnings increases or decreases of at least 25 percent, and …