Abstract The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants.
Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to …

The extent and causes of trends and cross-national variation in social class and
occupational status mobility have been major topics of sociological research for decades …

The presence of a westward‐moving frontier of settlement shaped early US history. In 1893,
the historian Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the American frontier fostered …

Using millions of father-son pairs spanning more than 100 years of US history, we find that
children of immigrants from nearly every sending country have higher rates of upward …

The recent digitization of complete count census data is an extraordinary opportunity for
social scientists to create large longitudinal datasets by linking individuals from one census …

We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since
independence using census data. First, we map IM across 27 countries and more than 2800 …

How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does
it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid …

We use data from Denmark, Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States
to document the degree of educational assortative mating, how it evolves over time, and the …

We develop a theory of parent‐child relations that rationalizes the choice between
alternative parenting styles (as set out in Baumrind, 1967). Parents maximize an objective …

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