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Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States

Posted on January 22, 2014 by ozidar

From Raj Chetty, Nathan Hendren, Pat Kline, and Emmanuel Saez: We use administrative records on the incomes of more than 40 million children and their parents to describe three features of intergenerational mobility in the United States. First, we characterize … Continue reading →

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The Effects of Tax Expenditures on Intergenerational Mobility

Posted on July 22, 2013 by ozidar

An important new project from Chetty, Hendren, Kline, and Saez starts with this paper, which they will be presenting at the NBER today. This paper develops a framework to study the effects of tax expenditures on intergenerational mobility using spatial variation … Continue reading →

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Long-term intergenerational persistence of human capital: an empirical analysis of four generations

Posted on July 3, 2013 by ozidar

From Mikael Lindahl, Mårten Palme, Sofia Sandgren Massih and Anna Sjögren:     Most previous studies of intergenerational transmission of human capital are restricted to two generations – parents and their children. In this study we use a Swedish data set … Continue reading →

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3 Articles from the Sunday NYTimes

Posted on December 23, 2012 by ozidar

1. God Save the British Economy  Each month, the committee heard Posen’s advice. Each month, it voted 8 to 1 against him. The bank eschewed his more expansionary suggestions and stuck to a more conservative approach of keeping interest rates low … Continue reading →

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