on administrative income data. Italy emerges as less immobile than previously depicted by studies using proxies for … standard when using administrative data and specific to our sample. A 10 percentile increase in parental income is associated … with a percentile increase in child income between 2.5 and 3. The expected rank of children born from parents with income …

Previous studies of recent U.S. trends in intergenerational income mobility have produced widely varying results … Income Dynamics, we generate more reliable estimates of the recent time-series variation in intergenerational mobility. Our …

structure, we analyze tuition subsidies such as exist in most public colleges, alternative forms of need-based aid, income … more intergenerational mobility and greater income equality. But, the various policies have quite different implications …

traditional snapshot proxies for lifetime incomes based on income flows at certain age windows in predicting child outcomes …

This essay reviews the theory and empirics of intergenerational mobility. Our review draws on models and empirical … evidence of two key sets of mechanisms: family factors (income, education, credit constraints, household composition, and genes … that the next generation of studies would benefit from a closer integration of theory with empirics …

under the assumption that parental income is the main source of heterogeneity. We explicitly model the variability and …