A group-specific measure of intergenerational persistence

Economics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 415-417

  Hertz, Tom ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Between group decomposition; Intergenerational mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 49349117171     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.03.008     Document Type: Article

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