Despite long-standing recognition of the importance of family background in shaping life
outcomes, only recently have empirical studies in demography, stratification, and other …

This study investigates the complex roles of the social environment and genes in the
multigenerational transmission of educational attainment. Drawing on genome-wide data …

Empirical research on social mobility has an arguably proud and–in the case of sociology–
long tradition (Black and Devereux, 2010, Bowles et al., 2005, Ganzeboom et al., 1991, Hout …

The articles in this special issue show the vitality and progress of research on
multigenerational aspects of social mobility, stratification, and inequality. The effects of the …

Nearly all intergenerational mobility studies focus on fathers and sons. The possibility that
the process is more than simply two‐generational (AR (1)) has been difficult to assess …

In this article, we report analyses of the effects of fertility and mortality trends on the mutual
exposure of grandparents and grandchildren and their consequences for multigenerational …

Kinship relations play a crucial role in structuring populations and shaping individual
outcomes. Differences in kinship among individuals, cohorts, and subpopulations are one …

The authors use administrative data linked to parish records from northern Sweden to study
how persistent inequality is across multiple generations in education, occupation, and …

Social Mobility for the 21st Century addresses experiences of social mobility, and the
detailed processes through which entrenched, intergenerationally transmitted privilege is …

Most social mobility studies take a two-generation perspective, in which intergenerational
relationships are represented by the association between parents' and offspring's …