"Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to …

less than those reported for schooling of children. However, our internal rate of return estimates are very sensitive to …

This paper uses the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the General … Social Survey (GSS) to measure the elasticity of family income on men’s adult earnings in 1980 and the early 1990s. The study … finds a large and statistically significant increase in the importance of family income over time when comparing cohorts in …

This paper tests whether state school finance reform alters neighborhood income homogeneity. One implication of the … that school finance has a significant effect on school district income sorting, especially among low income communities. …

income. More years in the U.S., higher education attainment and English language fluency remain strong predictors of …-born residents, or lower-income …

the relationship between the incomes of parents and future earnings of their children. We focus on two different measures …This paper concerns the problem of inferring the effects of covariates on intergenerational income mobility, i.e. on … of mobility- (i) traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles over generations and (ii) a new …