"Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to …

inferences concerning group differences in mobility with respect to the pooled income distribution. This paper uses transition … downwardly mobile than whites. This implies a steady-state distribution in which there is no racial convergence in income. A …

intergenerational income correlation, a measure insensitive to changes in cross-sectional inequality that has implications for rank …, by 2000, the rate of intergenerational movement across the income distribution appears historically normal, but, as cross …

former students were in their prime working years. …

the relationship between the incomes of parents and future earnings of their children. We focus on two different measures …This paper concerns the problem of inferring the effects of covariates on intergenerational income mobility, i.e. on … of mobility- (i) traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles over generations and (ii) a new …