This paper introduces four new intergenerational and multigenerational datasets which follow both sons and daughters … mobility across generations. The data follow the children of Black and White Union Army veterans from birth to death, linking …

This paper justifies unequal health care quality in a model with two regions and patients differentiated by location …/or quality provision costs. If costs are sufficiently low, then both regions win from inequality. Lump-sum transfers and price …

illuminates patterns of events within an individual’s life and records mobility and immobility between older and younger … course. It can join up data on aspects of a person’s life, health, education, family, and employment and show how these …

The ethnographic approach has much to contribute to our understanding of social mobility. This paper provides a … social mobility in the developing world have been explored ethnographically. It discusses the themes that these studies cover … in terms of two frames: the social construction of mobility and the fields within which mobility plays out. …

While childhood obesity has become a significant public health concern over the last few decades, knowledge concerning … measures of mobility to assess the evolution of weight, height, and body mass index during early childhood. We find that … mobility is quite high prior to primary school and then declines noticeably. However, there are important sources of …

results in inequality research. The authors find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well as … on income mobility. …

income inequality are negatively correlated with relative regional social mobility. In the model, segregation is driven by … productivity gap does not affect segregation, but causes higher income inequality and lower relative mobility in the respective …This paper analyzes the relationship between spatial mobility and social mobility. It develops a two-skill-type spatial …