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Title: African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility Since 1880
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2017
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Abstract: We document the intergenerational mobility of black and white American men from 1880 through 2000 by building new datasets to study the late 19th and early 20th century and combining them with modern data to cover the mid- to late 20th century. We find large disparities in intergenerational mobility, with white children having far better chances of escaping the bottom of the distribution than black children in every generation. This mobility gap was more important than the gap in parents status in proximately determining each new generations racial income gap. Evidence suggests that human capital disparities underpinned the mobility gap.
Url: http://www.nber.org/papers/w23395
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Authors: Collins, William J; Wanamaker, Marianne H
Series Title: NBER Working Paper Series
Publication Number: 23395
Institution: NBER
Pages: 1-41
Publisher Location: Cambridge, MA
Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS USA - Ancestry Full Count Data
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Poverty and Welfare, Race and Ethnicity
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