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Title: Mobility for All:representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates Over the 20th Century
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2021
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Abstract: We estimate long-run trends in intergenerational relative mobility for representative samples of the U.S.-born population. Harmonizing all surveys that include father's occupation and own family income, we develop a mobility measure that allows for the inclusion of non-whites and women for the 1910s–1970s birth cohorts. We show that mobility increases between the 1910s and 1940s cohorts and that the decline of Black-white income gaps explains about half of this rise. We also find that excluding Black Americans, particularly women, considerably overstates the level of mobility for twentieth-century birth cohorts while simultaneously understating its increase between the 1910s and 1940s.
Url: http://www.nber.org/papers/w29289
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Authors: Jácome, Elisa; Kuziemko, Ilyana; Naidu, Suresh
Series Title: NBER Working Paper Series
Publication Number: 29289
Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research
Pages: 1-143
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Gender, Methodology and Data Collection, Race and Ethnicity, Work, Family, and Time
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