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Choosing the right parents : changes in the intergenerational transmission of inequality - between 1980 and the early 1990s
Levine, David I. (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001697071
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Revised estimates of intergenerational income mobility in the United States
Mazumder, Bhashkar (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
"Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001920632
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Estimating the returns to community college schooling for displaced workers
Jacobsen, Louis (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001761397
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The growing importance of family and community : an analysis of changes in the sibling correlation in earnings
Mazumder, Bhashkar (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
"This study presents evidence that the correlation in brothers' earnings has risen in recent decades. We use two distinct cohorts of young men from the National Longitudinal Surveys and estimate that the correlation in earnings between brothers rose from 0.26 to 0.45. This suggests that family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001920916
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Maternal employment and overweight children
Anderson, Patricia M. (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001697106
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Fiscal Policy, Stabilization, and Growth: Prudence or Abstinence?
Werneck, Rogério L.F.; Irwin, Timothy; Sturzenegger, … - Inter-American Development Bank
Fiscal policy in Latin America has been guided primarily by short-term liquidity targets whose observance was taken as the main exponent of fiscal prudence, with attention focused almost exclusively on the levels of public debt and the cash deficit. Very little attention was paid to the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943424
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Automatic Stabilization and Fiscal Policy: Some Quantitative Implications for Latin America and the Caribbean
Espino, Emilio; Rozada, Martín González - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper provides an estimation of the size of income and demand automatic stabilizers in a representative sample of … size of income and demand automatic stabilizers coefficients is much smaller than the size of these coefficients in Europe … income stabilization coefficient and two others affecting directly the demand stabilization coefficient. The main results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943765
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Why Don't We Tax the Rich? Inequality, Legislative Malapportionment, and Personal Income Taxation around the World
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Ardanaz, Martín - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper argues that the details of political institutions help explain the low levels of personal income taxation … 1990 and 2007, this paper finds that i) countries with historically more unequal distributions of wealth and income … lower shares of personal income taxes in GDP. present higher levels of legislative malapportionment, and ii) higher levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944479
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2013 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report: Rethinking Reforms: How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Escape Suppressed World Growth
Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
Global growth projections have waned since last year and growth may be suppressed below potential for several years to come. Lower global growth will, all things being equal, imply lower growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. At the same time, clear limits to the potential use of monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672948
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Fiscal Policy, Stabilization, and Growth: Prudence or Abstinence?
Werneck, Rogério L.F.; Irwin, Timothy; Sturzenegger, … - Inter-American Development Bank
Fiscal policy in Latin America has been guided primarily by short-term liquidity targets whose observance was taken as the main exponent of fiscal prudence, with attention focused almost exclusively on the levels of public debt and the cash deficit. Very little attention was paid to the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772370