Theories of persistent inequality and intergenerational mobility

By Thomas Piketty. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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A simpler theory of optimal capital taxation (2017, methodology): “(10)The results of this section relate to earlier work by Piketty and Saez (2013b) who consider a model of bequest taxation with stochastic shocks in earnings abilities over generations.”
Finance and Inequality: Theory and Evidence (2009, neutral): “In addition, by impeding talented, but poor, individuals from becoming entrepreneurs, credit constraints lower overall level of economic efficiency (Piketty, 2000, p. 455).”
Identifying Social Interactions through Excess Variance Contrasts (2005, background): “The resulting iterative ‘reflection’ process stops 15 See Manski (1993), Brock and Durlauf (2001), Moffitt (2001).”
Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth (2014, neutral): “12 Chapter 6 in the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 1, (Piketty, 2000) provides an overview of theories of persistent inequality.”
OECD SOCIAL, EMPLOYMENT AND MIGRATION WORKING PAPERS Intergenerational Transmission of Disadvantage: Mobility or Immobility across Generations? A Review of the Evidence for OECD Countries (2007, neutral): “Intergenerational wealth transfers have therefore both equity and efficiency implications (e.g. see Laitner and Ohlsson, 2001; Piketty, 2000).”
Earnings Mobility and Measurement Error: A Pseudo‐Panel Approach (2005, positive): “In particular, Piketty (2000) surveys recent theoretical work which ﬁ nds that the presence of credit constraints can give rise to the possibility of “low-mobility traps”, whereby households who need to borrow to ﬁ nance investment can take a long time to build up wealth.”
Identifying Social Interactions Through Conditional Variance Restrictions (2008, background): “Piketty (2000) and Becker and Murphy (2000) surveyed theoretical models that generate excess between-group variance.”
Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America: A new database (2017, background): “…mobility literature is the slope coefficient from a linear regression of children’s on parents’ outcomes.10 Here, we regress the years of 8For conceptual and methodological reviews on intergenerational mobility, see Black and Devereux (2011); Jäntti and Jenkins (2013); Piketty (2000).”
Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany – The Last Five Decades (2007, background): “…to advance to either Middle School (Realschule / Mittelschule) or Advanced School 3 The laissez faire approach of not intervening in mobility outcomes can be efficient if the distortionary costs of government intervention exceed the efficiency gains from educating the most able (Piketty 2000).”
Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality (2003, neutral): “From the second-period budget constraint, we obtain using (27),”