Chetty, Raj; Hendren, Nathaniel; Kline, Patrick; Saez, … - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 5, pp. 141-47
We present new evidence on trends in intergenerational mobility in the United States using administrative earnings records. We find that percentile rank-based measures of intergenerational mobility have remained extremely stable for the 1971–1993 birth cohorts. For children born between 1971...