Using a multi-group population projection model, this study examines the implications of educational mobility and differential demographic rates on changing women’s educational distribution in South Korea. This article focuses on the implications of a differential population renewal process on educational mobility, which has not been extensively examined in previous studies of social mobility. ...

This study uses a new data set which merges the Social Security earnings histories of parents and children in the 1984 Survey of Income and Program Participation to measure the intergenerational elasticity in earnings in the United States. Earlier studies that found an intergenerational elasticity of 0.4 have typically used only five year averages of fathers’ earnings to measure fathers’ perman...

Intergenerational mobility has been a topic of persistent interest in sociology and, increasingly, in economics. Nearly all of these studies focus on fathers and sons. The possibility that intergenerational mobility is more than a simple twogenerational AR(1) process has been difficult to assess because of the lack of the necessary multi-generational data. We remedy this shortcoming with new da...

(1) The trend in many countries, since the mid 1970s, to increased inequality and polarization of the earned income of men [Jenkins 1995; Gottschalk and Smeeding, 1997]. Although the same has often not been true for women, one might expect such trends to produce greater inequality and poverty in family incomes after taxes and transfer—but is this true and how general is this tendency? (2) The f...

I examine how student allocation rules impact achievement of students of different ability and socioeconomic background. When the assignment rule shifts from exam to district based, a model illustrates that income relative to ability becomes a stronger predictor of student achievement and higher income households sort towards the better school districts. Using evidence from South Korea, I find ...

Young men today have lower incomes than their fathers' generation did at a similar age. 1 Further, many measures of income inequality in the United States have been growing for over twenty years. Both of these phenomena raise significant questions about a broader issue: the extent of social and economic opportunities available in today's society. Generational income comparisons or statistics on...

That historical inequality can affect long run macroeconomic performance has been argued by a large literature using models of indivisibilities in occupational choice, combined with credit constraints. Most of these models are characterized by a continuum of steady states, and absence of mobility in any steady state. We augment such a model with heterogeneity in agents’ abilities in order to ge...

Recent research by Chetty and colleagues finds that children's chances of upward mobility are affected by the communities in which they grow up [Chetty R, Hendren N (2016) Working paper 23002]. However, the developmental pathways through which communities of origin translate into future economic gain are not well understood. In this paper we examine the association between Chetty and Hendren's ...

The aim of this paper is to analyse intergenerational earnings mobility in Britain for cohorts of sons born between 1950 and 1972. Since there are no British surveys with information on both sons and their fathers’ earnings covering the above period, we consider two separate samples from the British Household Panel Survey: a first sample containing information on sons’ earnings and a set of occ...

Return Migration, Investment in Children, and Intergenerational Mobility: Comparing Sons of Foreign and Native Born Fathers This paper studies parental investment in education and intergenerational earnings mobility for father-son pairs with native and foreign born fathers. We illustrate within a simple model that for immigrants, investment in their children is related to their return migration...