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Fortunate Sons: New Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States Using Social Security Earnings Data
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This article found that intergenerational mobility is significantly lower for families with little or no wealth, offering empirical support for theoretical models that predict differences due to borrowing constraints, suggesting that the United States is substantially less mobile than previous research indicated.Abstract:
Previous studies, relying on short-term averages of fathers' earnings, have estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in earnings to be approximately 0.4. Due to persistent transitory fluctuations, these estimates have been biased down by approximately 30% or more. Using administrative data containing the earnings histories of parents and children, the IGE is estimated to be around 0.6. This suggests that the United States is substantially less mobile than previous research indicated. Estimates of intergenerational mobility are significantly lower for families with little or no wealth, offering empirical support for theoretical models that predict differences due to borrowing constraints.read more
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TL;DR: This article investigated public education and tax policies as a possible source for these differences and found that taxes and public education spending account for about one-third of the differences in earnings inequality and 14 percent of differences in intergenerational earnings persistence between the U.S. and Norway.
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Growth, Industrialization, and the Intergenerational Correlation of Advantage
TL;DR: This article examined the effects of economic growth on intergenerational mobility in a developing country, namely Indonesia, and found a declining inter-generational correlation of education between parents' and children's education.
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Childhood Car Access: Long-term Consequences for Education, Employment, and Earnings:
TL;DR: This article used propensity score matching and longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income and Wealth in order to answer the question "Do children suffer long-term consequences when they grow up without a car?"
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Education and Health in Developing Economies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed recent research on the relationship between education and health in poor countries and found that multiple causal pathways link the two domains, across different phases of an individual's lifecycle and across generations in a family.
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An Equilibrium Theory of the Distribution of Income and Intergenerational Mobility
Gary S. Becker,Nigel Tomes +1 more
TL;DR: The theory of inequality and intergenerational mobility presented in this paper assumes that each family maximizes a utility function spanning several generations, which depends on the consumption of parents and on the quantity and quality of their children.
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Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States
TL;DR: For example, this article showed that the intergenerational correlation in long-run income is at least 0.4, indicating dramatically less mobility than suggested by earlier research, indicating less mobility.
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Human Capital Policy
TL;DR: This paper showed the importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills that are formed early in the life cycle in accounting for racial, ethnic and family background gaps in schooling and other dimensions of socioeconomic success.
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Least absolute deviations estimation for the censored regression model
TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative to maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters of the censored regression (or censored 'Tobit' model) is proposed, which is a generalization of least absolute deviations estimation for the standard linear model, and is also robust to heteroscedasticity.
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The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Black, Hispanic, and White Males
TL;DR: The authors found that the long-run factors associated with parental background and family environment, and not credit constraints facing prospective students in the college-going years, account for most of the racial and ethnic disparities in college attendance.