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Mazumder, Bhashkar |
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What Similarities Between Siblings Tell Us About Inequality in the U.S. Chicago Federal Letter 209,1 (December 2004): 1-5 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Keyword(s): Demography; Family Influences; Incarceration/Jail; Income; Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Discusses family and community influences that lead to earnings inequality. Number of sibling pairs included in the sample of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth; Estimated sibling correlation in annual earnings for men; Percentage of the correlation between brothers accounted for the time spent in jail; Psychological measures that have a non-negligible effect on the sibling correlation. The author finds that about half of earnings inequality in the U.S. can be explained by family and community influences during childhood. He also finds that these influences have become more important in recent decades. Copyright: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago: 2004 |
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Mazumder, Bhashkar. "What Similarities Between Siblings Tell Us About Inequality in the U.S. ." Chicago Federal Letter 209,1 (December 2004): 1-5.
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