A Nonparametric Analysis Of Black White Differences In Intergenerational Income Mobility In The United States
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Author | : Debopam Bhattacharya |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
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Lower intergenerational income mobility for blacks is a likely cause behind the persistent inter-racial gap in economic status in the US. However, few studies have analyzed black-white differences in intergenerational income mobility and the factors that determine these differences. This is largely due to the absence of appropriate methodological tools. We develop nonparametric methods to estimate the effects of covariates on two measures of mobility. We first consider the traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles. We then introduce a new measure of upward mobility which is the probability that an adult child's relative position exceeds that of the parents. Conducting statistical inference on these mobility measures and the effects of covariates on them requires nontrivial modifications of standard nonparametric regression theory since the dependent variables are nonsmooth functions of marginal quantiles or relative ranks. Using NLSY data, we document that blacks experience much less upward mobility across generations than whites. Applying our new methodological tools, we find that most of this gap can be accounted for by differences in cognitive skills during adolescence.
Author | : Bhashkar Mazumder |
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Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 2014 |
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In recent decades, blacks have experienced substantially less upward mobility and substantially more downward mobility from one generation to the next than whites. These results are shown to be highly robust to a variety of measurement issues. The author examines rates of intergenerational mobility by race and asks whether such racial differences in the U.S. are likely to be eliminated and, if so, how long it might take.
Author | : Alexandra L. Minicozzi |
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Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1997 |
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Author | : Bhashkar Mazumder |
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Release | : 2011 |
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Traditional measures of intergenerational mobility such as the intergenerational elasticity are not useful for inferences concerning group differences in mobility with respect to the pooled income distribution. This paper uses transition probabilities and measures of "directional rank mobility" that can identify interracial differences in intergenerational mobility. The study uses two data sources, including one that contains social security earnings for a large intergenerational sample. I find that recent cohorts of blacks are not only significantly less upwardly mobile but also significantly more downwardly mobile than whites. This implies a steady-state distribution in which there is no racial convergence in income. A descriptive analysis using covariates reveals that test scores in adolescence can explain much of the racial difference in both upward and downward mobility. Family structure can account for some of the racial gap in upward mobility but not downward mobility. Completed schooling and parental wealth also appear to account for some of the racial gaps in intergenerational mobility.
Author | : Debopam Bhattacharya |
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Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Income |
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Author | : Jean Kimmel |
Publisher | : W.E. Upjohn Institute |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2022-02-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0880996781 |
This volume presents a complex portrait of the interrelationships among parents’ marital status and education, child gender, and the nature and success of children’s transitions into adulthood. The first three chapters focus on differences in parents’ investments in their children, while the final three chapters focus directly on intergenerational income mobility.
Author | : David Brady |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 937 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0199914052 |
The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty builds a common scholarly ground in the study of poverty by bringing together an international, inter-disciplinary group of scholars to provide their perspectives on the issue. Contributors engage in discussions about the leading theories and conceptual debates regarding poverty, the most salient topics in poverty research, and the far-reaching consequences of poverty on the individual and societal level.
Author | : Daniel P. McMurrer |
Publisher | : The Urban Insitute |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780877666745 |
Adapted in part from the "Opportunity in America" series of policy briefs, this volume focuses on social and economic mobility in the United States. Class or family background has a strong effect on individual success, the authors find. They examine the possible reasons for this relationship; how it has changed over the past century; and the role of the economy, the welfare system, and education in opening up opportunities for the less fortunate.
Author | : Juan Gabriel Rodríguez |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2011-10-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1780520344 |
Eight papers, both theoretical and applied, on the concept of equality of opportunity which says that a society should guarantee its members equal access to advantage regardless of their circumstances, while holding them responsible for turning that access into actual advantage by the application of effort.
Author | : Herman J. Bierens |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1996-02-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521565110 |
A rigorous treatment of a number of timely topics in advanced econometrics.