Volume 18, Number 2: June 2009

Table of Contents

Cultural Persistence as Behavior Towards Risk: Evidence from the North Carolina Cherokees, 1850-1880
Matthew T. Gregg
3
Determinants of Poverty Among Farming Households in Kogi State of Nigeria
Bolarin T. Omonona, Foluso Y. Okunmadewa
16
Factors associated to poverty mobility in Greater Buenos Aries
Luis Beccaria, Roxana Maurizio
35
Income Inequality and Job Satisfaction of Full-Time Employees in Germany
Christoph Wunder, Johannes Schwarze
70
How Representative are Representative Workers? An Assessment of the Hypothetical Workers Commonly Used in Social Security Studies
Wade D. Pfau
92
The Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality for Education and Earnings
Michael Beenstock
118
Decision Risks and Individual Development Accounts: An Alternative View
Edmund Khashadourian
142
The Estimation of Poverty and Inequality through Parametric Estimation of Lorenz Curves: An Evaluation
Camelia Minoiu, Sanjay G. Reddy
160

Notes

Maximum Entropy and the Entropy of Mixing for Income Distributions
G.R. Mohtashami Borzadaran, Zahra Behdani
179