A Nonparametric Nonclassical Measurement Error Approach to Estimating Intergenerational Mobility Elasticities
非参数非经典测量误差方法下的代际流动弹性估计
This article provides a framework for estimating intergenerational mobility elasticities (IGEs) of children’s income with respect to parental income. We allow the IGEs to be heterogeneous, by leaving the relationship of parental and child incomes unspecified, while acknowledging and addressing the latent nature of both child and parental permanent incomes and the resulted life-cycle bias. Our framework enables us to test the widely imposed assumption that the…