Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility
Top Cited Papers
- 1 November 2009
- journal article
- Published by MIT Press in The Review of Economics and Statistics
- Vol. 91 (4) , 766-772
- https://doi.org/10.1162/rest.91.4.766
Abstract
Previous studies of recent U.S. trends in intergenerational income mobility have produced widely varying results, partly because of large sampling errors. By making more efficient use of the available information in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we generate more reliable estimates of the recent time series variation in intergenerational mobility. Our results, which pertain to the cohorts born between 1952 and 1975, do not reveal major changes in intergenerational mobility. Copyright by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Keywords
All Related Versions
This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
- Trends in the Intergenerational Elasticity of Family Income in the United StatesIndustrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2007
- Life‐Cycle Variations in the Association between Current and Lifetime Income: Replication and Extension for SwedenJournal of Labor Economics, 2006
- Lifecycle bias in estimates of intergenerational earnings persistenceLabour Economics, 2006
- Life-Cycle Variation in the Association between Current and Lifetime EarningsAmerican Economic Review, 2006
- Is America becoming more equal for children? changes in the intergenerational transmission of low- and high-income statusSocial Science Research, 2004
- Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor MarketJournal of Economic Literature, 2002
- Intergenerational Income Mobility Among DaughtersAmerican Economic Review, 2002
- Earnings Instability and Earnings Inequality of Males in the United States: 1967–1991Journal of Labor Economics, 2001
- In Defense of InequalityAmerican Economic Review, 1999
- An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data: The Michigan Panel Study of Income DynamicsThe Journal of Human Resources, 1998