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DARP Paper

A Note on the Estimation of Intergenerational Income Correlations by the Method of Averaging

Ramses H. Abul Naga

Averaging methods are routinely used in order to limit biases resulting from the mismeasurement of permanent incomes. The Solon/Zimmerman estimator regresses a single-year measurement of the child's resources on a T-peri...Read more...

January 2001

DARP Paper

Estimating Welfare Indices: Household Weights and Sample Design, (published in Research on Economic Inequality, vol. 9 (2002), pp. 147-172).

Frank A Cowell and Stephen P Jenkins

The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic...Read more...

June 2000