Income inequality has been on the rise in many countries. Is this bad? One way to decide is to look at the degree of … change in incomes across generations (intergenerational mobility) and, more generally, at the extent to which income … individual's control-such as parents' education, local schools, and communities-require attention in order to reduce income …

The literature on intergenerational income mobility uses a diverse set of measures and there is limited knowledge about … main analysis uses income tax data from Australia to produce a comprehensive set of empirical estimates for each of 19 …

We construct a simple model, consistent with Becker and Tomes (1979), that decomposes the intergenerational income … capital plays in the determination of father's permanent income. We show how a particular set of instrumental variables could … sample of Swedish sons and their fathers, we show that only a minority of the intergenerational income elasticity can be …