We examine how intergenerational income mobility responds to structural changes in a simple theoretical model of …

Research on intergenerational income mobility is based on current income since data on lifetime income are typically … not available for two generations. However, using snapshots of income over shorter periods causes a so-called life …-cycle bias if the snapshots cannot mimic lifetime outcomes. Using uniquely long series of Swedish income data, we show that …

of age in a more polarized labor market, while the substantial rise in the income shares of the top 1 percent, their …

transmission; the multiplicity of skills; the role of grandparents; and the causal effect of parental income. The direction of bias …

, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to …’s income. We also find some evidence for a positive interaction effect between post-birth environment and pre-birth factors. …

strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty line, but also …

based on income data from two generations accurately predicts earnings persistence beyond two generations. We also do a …

reform on the intergenerational income mobility in Finland. The Finnish comprehensive school reform of 1972 … municipalities during a six-year period. The results indicate that the reform reduced the intergenerational income correlation by …