A simulation assisted learning method is introduced to deal with students’ misconceptions concerning the properties of estimators; bias, efficiency and consistency. The design of the exercise is based on cognitive conflict theory, i.e. the simulations provide contradictory information to...

Correlations curves are used to measure the degree of association of father’s and son’s earnings locally, i.e. at different positions in the earnings distributions. The local correlation is nonlinear, and can be very different from local elasticities from nonparametric, or quantile...

A correlation curve is proposed as an alternative measure to study the degree of intergenerational income mobility, i.e. how income status is related between parents and adult child. The method overcomes the shortcomings of the elasticity of children’s income with respect to fathers’ income...