The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940

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The Impact of a Carbon Tax on Inequality (2019, background): “This square root scale is often used by researchers to compare welfare across households of different sizes (Chetty et al. 2017; Johnson et al. 2005), and it assumes, for example, that a 4person household requires twice the resources as a 1-person household for its members to experience the same sta”
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility (2018, neutral): “comedistribution, asdocumentedempirically byCorakandHeisz (1999), Mazumder (2005a), andChetty et al. (2014a), among others.”
Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: an Intergenerational Perspective* (2018, positive): “Following Chetty et al. (2014a), we measure parents’ and children’s incomes using percentile ranks.”
A discursive construction of the Belt and Road Initiative: From neo-liberal to inclusive globalization (2018, background): “A recent study shows that the proportion of United States workers in their thirties (30–39 years old) earning more than their parents fell from 90% in 1970 to 41% in 2014, with the most dramatic declines occurring for middle class groups (Chetty et al., 2017).”