association between parental income and these outcomes, and the associations are stronger in the UK than in Sweden. Therefore, we … weight and height are too weak to account for hardly any fraction of the UK-Sweden difference in intergenerational income …Research on intergenerational income mobility has shown stronger persistence between parental and offspring's income in …

are used to approximate lifetime income. However, little is known about biases in other popular dependence measures. We … use long Swedish income series to provide such evidence for linear and rank correlations, and rank-based transition … from short-run income suggest. …