One size doesn’t fit all: a quantile analysis of intergenerational income mobility in the U.S. (1980–2010)

Conventional wisdom and previous literature suggest that economic mobility is lower at the tails of the income distribution. However, the few studies that have estimated intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) at different points of the distribution in the U.S. were limited by small samples, arriv...

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Main Authors: Palomino, J, Marrero, G, Rodríguez, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2017