Search Results
Author: Rosburg, Alicia
Resulting in 3 citations.
| 1. |
Richey, Jeremiah Alexander Rosburg, Alicia |
|
Changing Roles of Ability and Education in U.S. Intergenerational Mobility Economic Inquiry 55,1 (January 2017): 187-201. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecin.12362/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mobility, Economic; Parental Influences; Socioeconomic Background Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using data on young adults from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we investigate the changing roles of ability and education in the transmission of economic status across generations. We find that ability plays a substantially diminished role for the most recent cohort whereas education plays a much larger role. The first finding results primarily from a smaller effect of children's ability on status, the second from an increased correlation between parental status and educational attainment. A replication of the analysis by gender reveals that the changes in the role of ability are largely driven by men whereas the changes in education's role are largely driven by women. |
|
|
Bibliography Citation
Richey, Jeremiah Alexander and Alicia Rosburg. "Changing Roles of Ability and Education in U.S. Intergenerational Mobility." Economic Inquiry 55,1 (January 2017): 187-201.
|
| 2. |
Richey, Jeremiah Alexander Rosburg, Alicia |
|
Decomposing Economic Mobility Transition Matrices Journal of Applied Econometrics 33,1 (January/February 2018): 91-108. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jae.2578/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Family Income; Geocoded Data; Income Distribution; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mobility, Economic; Parental Influences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We present a decomposition method for transition matrices to identify forces driving the persistence of economic status across generations. The method decomposes differences between an estimated transition matrix and a benchmark transition matrix into portions attributable to differences in characteristics between individuals from different households (a composition effect) and portions attributable to differing returns to these characteristics (a structure effect). A detailed decomposition based on copula theory further decomposes the composition effect into portions attributable to specific characteristics and their interactions. To examine potential drivers of economic persistence in the USA, we apply the method to white males from the 1979 US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Depending on the transition matrix entry of interest, differing characteristics between sons from different households explain between 40% and 70% of observed income persistence, with differing returns for these characteristics explaining the remaining gap. Further, detailed decompositions reveal significant heterogeneity in the role played by specific characteristics (e.g., education) across the income distribution. |
|
|
Bibliography Citation
Richey, Jeremiah Alexander and Alicia Rosburg. "Decomposing Economic Mobility Transition Matrices." Journal of Applied Econometrics 33,1 (January/February 2018): 91-108.
|
| 3. |
Richey, Jeremiah Rosburg, Alicia |
|
Decomposing Joint Distributions via Reweighting Functions: An Application to Intergenerational Economic Mobility Econometric Reviews 39,6 (2020): 541-558. Also: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07474938.2019.1697088 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group Keyword(s): Household Income; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Male Sample; Mobility, Economic; Statistical Analysis Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We introduce a method that extends the traditional Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition to both the full distribution of an outcome of interest and to settings where group membership varies along a continuum. We achieve this by working directly with the joint distribution of outcome and group membership and comparing it to an independent joint distribution. Like all decompositions, we assume the difference is partially due to differences in characteristics between groups (a composition effect) and partially due to differences in returns to characteristics between groups (a structure effect). We use reweighting functions to estimate a counterfactual joint distribution representing the hypothetical if characteristics did not vary according to group while returns to characteristics did. The counterfactual allows us to decompose differences between the empirical and independent distributions into composition and structure effects. We demonstrate the method by decomposing multiple measures of immobility for white men in the U.S. |
|
|
Bibliography Citation
Richey, Jeremiah and Alicia Rosburg. "Decomposing Joint Distributions via Reweighting Functions: An Application to Intergenerational Economic Mobility." Econometric Reviews 39,6 (2020): 541-558.
|