And Yet It Moves: Intergenerational Mobility in Italy

"Eppur si muove" ("and yet it moves").

Prostate cancer screening: and yet it moves!

The debate of prostate cancer (PCa) screening has been shaped over decades. There is a plethora of articles in the literature supporting as well as declining prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening. Does screening decrease PCa mortality? With the long-term results of the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate (ERSPC) the answer is clearly YES. It moves! However, in medicine there...

"Eppur si muove" (Yet it moves).

I n the 17th century, the problem of the relative movement of the Earth with respect to the sun was an issue of central importance, and in fact, the man who has been considered responsible for the birth of modern science was committed to house arrest for defending the heliocentric hypothesis. Four centuries after the (never-confirmed) legend of Galileo Galilei’s rebellious phrase, a problem of ...

Comparable Estimates of Intergenerational Income Mobility in Italy

This paper examines the degree of intergenerational economic mobility in Italy. It adds to the growing number of international studies of the extent to which economic status is passed on across generations. On the basis of recent econometric innovations used in the literature (Bjorklund and Jantti, 1997), we are able to overcome some of the data limitations for Italy. We use the Historical Data...

Intergenerational mobility in Korea

This study investigates intergenerational earnings mobility in Korea for sons born between 1958 and 1973 and compares Korea’s mobility to that of other nations. It uses data from the Korea Labor and Income Panel Study and the Household Income and Expenditure Survey conducted by the Korean National Statistics Bureau. Since no single Korean dataset includes information on both sons’ and their fat...