Chetty, Raj; Saez, Emmanuel; Hendren, Nathaniel; Kline, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We present new evidence on trends in intergenerational mobility in the U.S. 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 and 1986, we...