Greg Mankiw reports that Chetty/Saez’s recent study on income mobility finds that “91 percent of the variance [in a person’s income] is unexplained by ... [Read More]
Chetty & Saez distance themselves from prior claims that government expenditures financed by progressive taxation reduces poverty
Lost in the coverage surrounding Chetty & Saez’s newly released paper, which debunks the claim that income mobility is declining in the U.S., are ... [Read More]
Chetty and Saez debunk the claim that income mobility is declining in the U.S.
Chetty and Saez’s new study, “Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in the Intergenerational Mobility,” debunks the notion ... [Read More]