Mobility as Progressivity: Ranking Income Processes According to Equality of Opportunity

By Roland Bénabou, Efe A. Ok. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Intertemporal Choice and Consumption Mobility (2006, methodology): “To check the consistency of the estimated income process with the model in equations (7) and (8), note that the income process implies the following testable restrictions on the covariance matrix of the first difference of the income residuals:”
On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility (2001, background): “, for welfare under (10) to be larger than welfare under (8): : and ,”
Does income mobility equalize longer-term incomes? New measures of an old concept (2010, background): “notion of mobility as an equalizer of opportunity, which is one way of looking at time- independence ( Benabou and Ok, 2001 ).”
Equality of opportunity and luck: Definitions and testable conditions, with an application to income in France (2009, background): “…the terminology introduced in Roemer (1998), we refer to the former determinants 1Roemer et al. (2003), O’Neill et al. (2000), Checchi et al. (1999), Benabou & Ok (2001), Bourguignon et al. (2007), Goux and Maurin (2003), Alesina and La Ferrara (2005) and Checchi & Peragine (2005) who analyze…”
Trends in Income Inequality, Pro-Poor Income Growth and Income Mobility (2006, background): “So too have Bénabou & Ok (2001), who argued that ‘(desirable) mobility is progressivity, in the mapping between initial incomes and future 1This type of decomposition, as well as ours, should not be confused with the decomposition of poverty and inequality indices by population subgroup or by…”
Preferences for Redistribution in the Land of Opportunities (2005, unknown): “In fact, Benabou and Ok (2001a) show that there exists a range of individuals with below-mean income who oppose redistribution if their expected income is a concave function of today’s income.6 In reality, redistributive programs are more complex than those implied by the linear tax schedule à la…”