Bhattacharya, Debopam; Mazumder, Bhashkar - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 2 (2011) 3, pp. 335-379
Lower intergenerational income mobility for blacks is a likely cause behind the persistent interracial gap in economic … status in the United States. However, few studies have analyzed black-white differences in intergenerational income mobility … traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles. We then introduce a new measure of upward mobility which …
