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 …

Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test …

Germany and the United States and introduces an estimation strategy that corrects estimates of intergenerational earnings … is more limited in the US than in Germany. Furthermore, while the errors-in-variables problems have been dealt with … bias is found to be strong in Germany but only modest in the US. -- Intergenerational mobility ; lifecycle bias …

PSID. We estimate that the rank-rank slope in SRHS is 0.26. We show that including both parent health and income in models … health and then use this to combine income and health into a measure of welfare and estimate the rank-rank slope to be about …