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Intergenerational Elasticity

The intergenerational elasticity of income (IGE) is the workhorse measure of economic mobility: the regression coefficient from regressing a child's adult log income on the parent's log income. It expresses the percentage by which a child's expected income rises for each one-percent increase in parental income, so a higher IGE means income advantages and disadvantages are more strongly transmitted across generations and society is less mobile.

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Intergenerational Elasticity of Income (IGE)
Taxonomic method record · regression-model / sociology
  • Solon, G. (1992). Intergenerational income mobility in the United States. American Economic Review, 82(3), 393–408. · URL
  • Black, S. E., & Devereux, P. J. (2011). Recent developments in intergenerational mobility. Handbook of Labor Economics (Vol. 4B, pp. 1487–1541). Elsevier. NBER Working Paper 15889. · DOI 10.3386/w15889
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