Rural household income mobility in Ethiopia: Dimensions, drivers and policy. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Welfare dynamics studies are useful in understanding how individuals, families, society, and a country are organised. For the last two decades, Ethiopia's economic reports on income disparity, poverty, and other welfare metrics have been hopeful and ...
Yalfal Temesgen Tigabu +2 more
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Educational constraints on marital sorting and income mobility. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis paper examines the effect of educational assortative mating on overall income mobility in terms of both inter- and intragenerational mobility. In recent years, educational assortative mating has become a trend in China, and this marital sorting ...
Nan Gao
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Baseline income, follow-up income, income mobility and their roles in mental disorders: a longitudinal intra-generational community-based study [PDF]
BMC Psychiatry, 2020 Background Although a number of studies have found that income mobility associated with an elevated risk of mental disorders, existing research does not provide sufficient evidence of how exactly individuals’ experience of income mobility per se affects ...
Xiangfei Meng +3 more
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The association between childhood exposure to local wealth inequality and intergenerational income mobility in the United States [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsPrevious research has documented that income inequality is negatively associated with intergenerational income mobility. Beyond income, wealth is also distributed unequally.
Manuel Schechtl
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Internet use, income mobility and the expansion of the rural middle-income group: Evidence from China [PDF]
HeliyonThe expansion of the rural middle-income group has been a global focus as it contributes to narrowing income gaps and reducing social inequality. Using data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this study examines the impact of Internet use on the
Jie Weng, Wang Li, Xinru Zheng
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Trends in Income Inequality, Pro-Poor Income Growth and Income Mobility [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of income growth across the income range and the reshuffling of individuals in the income pecking order. We use the framework first to explain how it was possible both for the poor to have fared badly relatively to the rich in the USA ...
Jenkins, SP, Van Kerm, P
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Compulsory education law and intergenerational income mobility in China [PDF]
Frontiers in SociologyIntroductionIntergenerational income mobility serves as a key indicator of equality of opportunity and social stratification. Education is widely seen as a vital pathway for enhancing social mobility.
Qingqing Yuan, Zeyun Liu, Hewen Wu
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Income Inequality and Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States. [PDF]
Soc Forces, 2015 Is there a relationship between family income inequality and income mobility across generations in the United States? As family income inequality rose in the United States, parental resources available for improving children's health, education, and care diverged. The amount and rate of divergence also varied across US states.
Bloome D.
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Intergenerational Income Mobility in Urban China [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 This paper estimates the intergenerational income elasticity for urban China, paying careful attention to the potential biases induced by income fluctuations and life cycle effects. Our preferred estimate indicates that the intergenerational income elasticity for father–son is 0.63.
Gong, Honge, Leigh, Andrew, Meng, Xin
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Preterm Birth, Family Income, and Intergenerational Income Mobility.
JAMA Netw OpenImportancePreterm birth (PTB) has been associated with lower income in adulthood, but associations with intergenerational income mobility and the role of family socioeconomic status (SES) as modifying factor are unclear.ObjectivesTo assess whether the association between PTB and income differs according to family SES at birth and to assess the ...
Ahmed AM +9 more
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