We estimate intergenerational elasticities (IGE) of housing consumption and income in the US. Using surnames to link … 1940 and 2015, we estimate a one-generation housing-consumption IGE of 0.73, higher than that of income at 0.52. Housing … consumption IGE is higher for White compared to Black Americans and higher in the Northeast, patterns that contrast with income …

income differences also have less intergenerational mobility: a relationship known as the Great Gatsby Curve. In this paper … men who grew up in regions or periods with high levels of income inequality experienced less intergenerational mobility as …

.306. Wealth correlations are difficult to interpret and not well grounded in theory. We therefore also implement Boserup et al …

income mobility of immigrants relative to natives (-23%), suggestive of large, persistent income gaps for future generations …

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 …

mobility. We estimate that a child with parental income below the median is expected to belong to the 44th percentile of its … own income distribution as an adult, and the probability of moving from the bottom to the top quintile of the income … higher than elsewhere in the income distribution.Upward mobility is higher for sons, first-born children, children of self …