probabilities. Attenuation bias is considerably weaker in rank-based measures. Life-cycle bias is strongest in the elasticity …

developing countries, with a focus on data and methodological challenges. The attenuation due to measurement error is compounded … by sample truncation resulting from co-residency and causes substantial downward bias in intergenerational regression …

measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …

measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …

data free of coresidency bias, we provide evidence on three large developing countries (China, India, and Indonesia) that … false impression of high educational mobility. The downward bias is specially large for the children born into the most … disadvantaged households where fathers have no schooling, while the bias is negligible for the children of college educated fathers …

free of coresidency bias from three developing countries with 42 percent of world population in 2000 (China, India …

used to define household membership. This paper provides evidence on truncation bias in rank-based relative and absolute … mobility estimates in coresident samples, and compares with the bias in intergenerational regression coefficient (IGRC) and … parental education are overestimated in coresident samples. The downward bias in rank correlation is much smaller than that in …

Australia survey, the estimated intergenerational income elasticity is 0.28. Correcting for attenuation bias raises this to 0 …