"Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to …

This paper uses the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the General … Social Survey (GSS) to measure the elasticity of family income on men’s adult earnings in 1980 and the early 1990s. The study … finds a large and statistically significant increase in the importance of family income over time when comparing cohorts in …

This paper tests whether state school finance reform alters neighborhood income homogeneity. One implication of the … that school finance has a significant effect on school district income sorting, especially among low income communities. …

income. More years in the U.S., higher education attainment and English language fluency remain strong predictors of …-born residents, or lower-income …

This paper concerns the problem of inferring the effects of covariates on intergenerational income mobility, i.e. on … of mobility- (i) traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles over generations and (ii) a new …

Solon’s (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to be …

intergenerational income correlation, a measure insensitive to changes in cross-sectional inequality that has implications for rank …, by 2000, the rate of intergenerational movement across the income distribution appears historically normal, but, as cross …