Life-Cycle Variation in the Association between Current and Lifetime Earnings

By Steven J. Haider, Gary Solon. 2006

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Intergenerational Wealth Mobility and the Role of Inheritance: Evidence from Multiple Generations (2018, background): “First, as is evident from the literature on life-cycle bias (Haider and Solon, 2006), it is important to find more permanent measures of economic status than what is captured by yearly income measures.”
Biases in Standard Measures of Intergenerational Income Dependence (2017, methodology): “Consistent with previous work, life-cycle bias is minimized when incomes are observed around mid-age (see Grawe, 2006; Haider and Solon, 2006).”
Income Inequality, Intergenerational Mobility, and the Great Gatsby Curve: Is Education the Key? (2015, background): “6 Individuals younger than 25 and older than 59 have been excluded, as their earnings are subject to “transitory” fluctuations, leading to “life-cycle bias” (see Haider and Solon [2006]).”
Equalization or Selection? Reassessing the “Meritocratic Power” of a College Degree in Intergenerational Income Mobility (2019, background): “…respondents were 35 to 44 years old, an age range during which a respondent’s income serves as the best proxy for her lifetime economic standing (Haider and Solon 2006; Mazumder 2005).10 When respondents were young and lived in their parents’ households, parents provided income reports on a…”
Heterogeneous Income Profiles and Lifecycle Bias in Intergenerational Mobility Estimation (2016, methodology): “Evidence by Haider and Solon (2006) and Grawe (2006) suggests that the latter is empirically important.”
Family size and child outcomes: Is there really no trade-off? (2010, background): “…children and current income has been shown to be a poor proxy of life-time income, especially at young ages (e.g. Böhlmark and Lindquist, 2006; Haider and Solon, 2006).8 Table 1 displays the distribution of family sizes (number of children) for allmotherswho gave birth at least once from1972…”
The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility (2018, positive): “Chetty et al. (2014) show that measuring income using ranks yields more robust estimates by reducing the influence of outliers and mitigating lifecycle bias because individuals’ income ranks stabilize earlier in their lives than their income levels (Solon 1999, Haider and Solon, 2006, Grawe, 2006).”
The Informational Content of Surnames, the Evolution of Intergenerational Mobility and Assortative Matin (2015, methodology): “Moreover, Lee and Solon (2009) and Hertz (2007) attribute a fairly divergent body of existing results to smallsample bias in addition to the aforementioned age bias and sample attrition problems (c.f., Mayer and Lopoo (2005) and Fertig (2004)).”