inferences concerning group differences in mobility with respect to the pooled income distribution. This paper uses transition … downwardly mobile than whites. This implies a steady-state distribution in which there is no racial convergence in income. A …

using the decennial U.S. Censuses. We find that the intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) followed a roughly U … different pattern for the intergenerational income correlation, a measure which is insensitive to changes in cross … the income distribution across generations appears historically normal, but, as cross-sectional inequality has increased …

PSID. We estimate that the rank-rank slope in SRHS is 0.26. We show that including both parent health and income in models … health and then use this to combine income and health into a measure of welfare and estimate the rank-rank slope to be about …

rose from 0.27 to 0.4 and the IGE rose from 0.35 to 0.51. The share of children whose income exceeds that of their parents …

This article reviews the contributions of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to the study of intergenerational …

than income mobility in the US. A possible explanation is that social institutions and policies are more effective at … disrupting intergenerational health transmission than income transmission. We further show that health and income each capture a … of health mobility compared with income mobility and also find some evidence that there has been a notable decline in …

The literature on intergenerational income mobility uses a diverse set of measures and there is limited knowledge about … main analysis uses income tax data from Australia to produce a comprehensive set of empirical estimates for each of 19 …