Chetty, Hendren, Kline, Saez, Turner: Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? (2014)
The Point: The authors find that intergenerational mobility in the United States has not decreased over time (looking at birth cohorts...
Piketty & Saez: Income Inequality in the U.S. 1913-1998 (2003)
The Point: Nearly half a century later, this paper responds to Simon Kuznets' findings. Saez and Piketty find that over the course of the...
