Summer School 2020

The Macroeconomics of Inequality, Week 2

Slides and readings

1. Measures of intergenerational mobility

• Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility

• Intergenerational Mobility in the US: What We Have Learned from the PSID

• Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity,and Intergenerational Mobility

2. Intergenerational mobility across time and space

• Cross-country Differences in Intergenerational Income Mobility

• Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States

• Long term decline in intergenerational mobility in the United States since 1850s

3. Intergenerational mobility, segregation and inequality

• The End of the America Dream? Inequality and Segregation in US Cities

• The Effects of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility

• Inequality at Birth:Some Causes and Cosequences

4. Inequality, gender and race

• Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy

• Engines of Liberation

• The Power of the Pill

• Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work and Fertility

• Women, Work and Wages: The Effects of Female Labor Supply on the Wage Structure at Midcentury

• The Effects of the 1930s HOLC“Redlining” Maps

• Can you move to opportunity?Evidence from the Great Migration

5. Beliefs evolution and macroeconomic outcomes

• Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes?

• Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange

• Mothers and Sons: Preference Formation and Female Labor Force Dynamics

• Nature or Nurture? Learning and the Geography of Female Labor Force Participation

6. Beliefs, intergenerational mobility and redistribution

• Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution

• Immigration and Redistribution

• Civil Liberties in the Time of Health and Economic Crises