A nonparametric analysis of black-white differences in intergenerational income mobility in the United States

Quantitative Economics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 335-379

  Bhattacharya, Debopam ^a   Mazumder, Bhashkar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Black white mobility gap; Hadamard differentiability; Intergenerational mobility; Nonparametric regression; Upward mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883515758     PISSN: 17597323     EISSN: 17597331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/QE69     Document Type: Article

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