The US tolerates more inequality than Europe and believes its economic mobility is greater
than Europe's, though they had roughly equal rates of intergenerational occupational …

We make use of newly available data that include roughly 5 million linked household and
population records from 1850 to 2015 to document long-term trends in intergenerational …

Was intergenerational economic mobility high in the early twentieth century in the US?
Comparisons of mobility across time are complicated by the constraints of the data available …

A large body of evidence finds that relative mobility in the US has declined over the past 150
years. However, long-run mobility estimates are usually based on White samples and …

Do severe economic downturns increase intergenerational economic mobility by breaking
links between generations, or do they instead reduce mobility by limiting opportunity for 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 …

This article examines the role of the Great Depression in shaping the intergenerational
mobility of some of the most upwardly mobile cohorts of the twentieth century. Using newly …

Featuring in-depth coverage of categorical and nonparametric statistics, this book provides a
conceptual framework for choosing the most appropriate type of test in various research …

There are large differences in intergenerational mobility between countries. Little is known,
however, about how persistent such differences are, and how they evolve over time. This …

The last two decades of high economic growth in India has been accompanied by
increasing economic inequality. The rise in inequality raises concerns about fall in …