In Praise of Snapshots
Working Paper 2020-512 Abstract The conventional justification for moving from income distribution to intergenerational mobility analysis is that the movie
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Upper and lower bound estimates of inequality of opportunity
Working Paper 2020-511 Abstract I provide lower and upper bound estimates of inequality of opportunity (IOp) for 24 European countries,
Read MoreEconomic Insecurity and the Rise of the Right
Working Paper 2020-510 Abstract Economic insecurity has attracted growing attention in social, academic and policy circles. However, there is no
Read MoreMeasuring the distributional impact of taxation and public spending
Working Paper 2019-509 Abstract Taxation and public spending are key policy levers the state has in its power to change
Read MorePreferences for redistribution and exposure to tax-benefit schemes in Europe
Working Paper 2019-508 Abstract This paper provides evidence that attitudes towards redistribution are associated with the extent of generosity of
Read MoreTo impute or not to impute, and how? A review of alternative poverty
Working Paper 2019-507 Abstract There is an increasingly stronger demand for more frequent and accurate poverty estimates, despite the oftentimes
Read MoreThe distribution of wealth in the U.S. and Spain
Working Paper 2019-506 Abstract The literature has typically found that socio-economic factors (age, education, income, labor status, household structure) are
Read MoreOn the measurement of population weighted relative indices of mobility and convergence, with an illustration based on Chinese data
Working Paper 2019-505 Abstract This paper extends previous work on income-weighted measures of distributional change by defining in a unified
Read MoreIntergenerational earnings elasticity of actual father-son pairs in Italy accounting for lifecycle and attenuation bias
Working Paper 2019-504 Abstract Using a rich longitudinal dataset built by merging administrative and survey data, this article contributes to
Read MoreOn the measurement of relative, absolute and intermediate
Working Paper 2019-503 Abstract Authors: Osnat Peled, Jacques Silber. Keywords: Dissimilarity, segregation, inequality, majorization, Zonotopes, axiomatic. JEL: D63, J71, J62,
Read MoreRobust dissimilarity comparisons with categorical outcomes
Working Paper 2019-502 Abstract The analysis of many economic phenomena requires partitioning societies into groups, Authors: Francesco Andreoli, Claudio Zoli.
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