We estimate long-run intergenerational persistence in human capital using information on
outcomes for the extended family: the dynasty. A dataset including the entire Swedish …

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

Most intergenerational mobility studies rely on either snapshot or time-averaged measures
of earnings, but have yet to examine resemblance of earnings trajectories over the life …

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 …

The US Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2018.
Initially designed to assess the nation's progress in combatting poverty, PSID's scope …

The Chinese Communist Revolution that culminated in the 1949 founding of the People's
Republic of China fundamentally transformed class relations in China. With data from a …

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

Intergenerational social mobility has immense implications for individuals' well-being,
attitudes, and behaviors. However, previous methods may be unreliable for estimating …

Conventional analyses of social mobility and status reproduction retrospectively compare an
outcome of individuals to a characteristic of their parents. By ignoring the mechanisms of …

We use a multigenerational perspective to investigate how families reproduce and pass their
educational advantages to succeeding generations. Unlike traditional mobility studies that …