Jacome, Elisa; Kuziemko, Ilyana; Naidu, Suresh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We present the first estimates of long-run trends in intergenerational relative mobility for samples that are … develop a mobility measure that allows for the inclusion of non-whites and women for the 1910s-1970s birth cohorts. We show a … robust increase in mobility between the 1910s and 1940s cohorts, about half of which is driven by absolute convergence in …