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Measuring Intergenerational Income Mobility : A Synthesis of Approaches

Deutscher, Nathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2021

The literature on intergenerational income mobility uses a diverse set of measures and there is limited knowledge about whether these measures provide similar information and yield similar conclusions. We provide a framework to highlight the key concepts and properties of the different...

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A Nonparametric Analysis of Black-White Differences in Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States

Bhattacharya, Debopam; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2011

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

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The Decline in Intergenerational Mobility after 1980

Davis, Jonathan - 2020

We demonstrate that intergenerational mobility declined sharply for cohorts born between 1957 and 1964 compared to those born between 1942 and 1953. The former entered the labor market largely after the large rise in inequality that occurred around 1980 while the latter entered the labor market...

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Black-White Differences in Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the US

Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2011

Traditional measures of intergenerational mobility such as the intergenerational elasticity are not useful for inferences concerning group differences in mobility with respect to the pooled income distribution. This paper uses transition probabilities and measures of “directional rank...

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Pay for Percentile

Barlevy, Gadi; Neal, Derek A. - 2009

We propose an incentive pay scheme for educators that links educator compensation to the ranks of their students within … optimal levels of effort to all students. Because this scheme employs only ordinal information, our scheme allows education …

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Estimating the Intergenerational Elasticity and Rank Association in the US : Overcoming the Current Limitations of Tax Data

Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2015

Ideal estimates of the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income require a large panel of income data covering the entire working lifetimes for two generations. Previous studies have demonstrated that using short panels and covering only certain portions of the lifecycle can lead to...

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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States

Chay, Kenneth Y. - 2014

Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960s and early 1970s that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...

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Job-to-Job Mobility and Inflation

Faccini, Renato; Melosi, Leonardo - 2023

The low rate of inflation observed in the U.S. over the past decade is hard to reconcile with traditional measures of labor market slack. We develop a theory-based indicator of interfirm wage competition that can explain the missing inflation. Key to this result is a drop in the rate of...

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Paying for Performance : The Education Impacts of a Community College Scholarship Program for Low-Income Adults

Barrow, Lisa; Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn; Rouse, Cecilia Elena - 2012

We evaluate the effect of performance-based incentive programs on educational outcomes for community college students … group students completed nearly 40 percent more credits. We find little evidence that program eligibility changed types of …

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Making the (Letter) Grade : The Incentive Effects of Mandatory Pass/Fail Courses

Butcher, Kristin F.; McEwan, Patrick J.; Weerapana, Akila - 2022

-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regression-discontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …

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