We use PSID data to 2008 to consider changes in the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) of income in fifteen successive ten-year cohort-groups of sons aged 36-45 between 1997 and 2011. Regressing sons’ estimated lifetime income on fathers’ income within each group, we obtain fifteen IGE...

We identify a declining trend in the intergenerational mobility of men’s family income in the United States for sons aged 36-45 between 1997 and 2011, corresponding to fifteen successive rolling ten-year cohort-groups born between 1952 and 1975. Using PSID data to 2008, we first predict...

We use PSID data to 2008 to consider changes in the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) of income in fifteen successive ten-year cohort-groups of sons aged 36-45 between 1997 and 2011. Regressing sons' estimated lifetime income on fathers' income within each group, we obtain fifteen IGE...