BACKGROUND Since our knowledge of the associations between socioeconomic position (SEP) over the life course and inflammatory and metabolic markers, which are excellent predictors of cardiovascular disease, remains limited, we examined the association between social mobility over the life course and these markers at older ages. METHODS Our study used cross-sectionally collected data from 6142...

The poor favor redistribution and the rich oppose it, but that is not all. Social mobility may make some of today’s poor into tomorrow’s rich and since redistributive policies do not change often, individual preferences for redistribution should depend on the extent and the nature of social mobility. We estimate the determinants of preferences for redistribution using individual level data from...

Mobility-pricing is one of the avenues leading to the information highway . Using a combination of positioning, communication and information processing, automobile insurance can be priced based on actual mileage of the vehicle. Vehicle s location is periodically and electronically disclosed to a central server for invoice generation. This raises the possibility of this data being used to revea...

With the development of location-based social networks, an increasing amount of individual mobility data accumulate over time. The more mobility data are collected, the better we can understand the mobility patterns of users. At the same time, we know a great deal about online social relationships between users, providing new opportunities for mobility prediction. This paper introduces a novelt...

2003 Social scientists in general, and sociologists in particular, have long been interested in intergenerational occupational mobility. Indeed, among sociologists the interest is so common that they often refer to intergenerational occupational mobility simply as “social mobility.” Most notable among innumerable contributions to the large literature on social mobility are the landmark studies ...

This paper examines the degree of elitism of public education under two different social objectives. It illustrates a potential conflict between welfare and social mobility. In the absence of private supplementary education, utilitarian welfare increases with the degree of elitism of the public education system. On the other hand, elitism decreases the steady state proportion of heterogenous dy...

This paper empirically investigates whether individuals indeed vote with their pocketbooks. Individual level data from the General Social Survey and the World Values Survey show significant deviations from pocketbook voting even among the poorest and the richest individuals in the sample. Differences in income status, education status, and perceived social mobility explain only a small fraction...

MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL ✮ VOLUME 58, NO. 2, SPRING 2004 Dhufar, the southern region of the Sultanate of Oman, displays a tremendous diversity in its social structure, rather surprising for an area so small. While the people of the coastal plain and the inland Najd are Arabic-speaking, the mountain highlands of the region are home to various non-Arabic speaking communities. Brief descriptions of the...

We construct comparable measures of intergenerational mobility (IM) for 103 Italian provinces using the methodology of Güell, Rodŕıguez Mora and Telmer (2007; 2014) and explore their correlation with a variety of social and economic outcomes. We find that higher IM is positively associated with economic activity, education and social capital, and negatively correlated with inequality. Moreover,...

This paper re-considers some of the evidence for low and declining social mobility in Britain, showing that one study based on a re-analysis of cohort figures appears to have had an impact on policy-makers out of all proportion to its scale and rigour. The study claimed to show that the income of parents and children were more closely related for sons born in 1970 than in 1958, and that therefo...