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Title: The Role of Gender in Income Mobility: Evidence from the NLSY79
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Kroeger, Sarah |
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The Role of Gender in Income Mobility: Evidence from the NLSY79 Working Paper, Department of Economics, Boston University, October 2010. Also: http://people.bu.edu/skroeger/files/kroeger_mobility2010.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Boston University Keyword(s): Earnings; Income; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mobility, Economic Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Previous studies of intergenerational income mobility in the United States have focused primarily on the transmission of earnings from fathers to sons. However, thanks to the increase in female labor force participation during the last several decades and the collection of longitudinal, multi-generational data, it is now possible to include both mothers and daughters in this analysis. I estimate the total magnitude of the inter-generational elasticity of income, and provide a decomposition of this elasticity into paternal and maternal effects. Although the magnitude of the paternal effect is the larger, the maternal effect is significant. Roughly one fourth of intergenerational income transmission can be attributed to maternal earnings, and omitting maternal income biases the estimate of the effect of paternal income by over 20 percent. I used data from the National Longitudinal Study to estimate income elasticity with respect to parental earnings. In particular, my goal was to measure the difference in the degree of income mobility experienced by daughters versus sons, as well as the relevance of maternal earnings to income mobility. |
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Kroeger, Sarah. "The Role of Gender in Income Mobility: Evidence from the NLSY79." Working Paper, Department of Economics, Boston University, October 2010. |