cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills during childhood are lower controlling for family income. Similarly, parent education …

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 …

"Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to …

Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to be …

The literature on intergenerational income mobility uses a diverse set of measures and there is limited knowledge about … main analysis uses income tax data from Australia to produce a comprehensive set of empirical estimates for each of 19 …

Social scientists have long documented that many components of socioeconomic status such as income and education have … status gets transmitted to their children. Once we add additional mediators to the model, we show that education, and … particularly children's education, is an important transmission channel in that it reduces the IHA by one third. Finally, we show …