Not much is known about the process of intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in the developing world, mainly due to the lack of longitudinal datasets. There is however reason to believe that the high degree of inequality as well as stratification prevalent in developing countries may contribute to greater persistence in the intergenerational transmission of opportunities. If ...

A large literature has measured the regression to the mean in earnings and occupational status. One conclusion of this literature is that earnings regress to the mean more rapidly than status. This paper provides a theoretical model for intergenerational mobility in both status and earnings and examines its implications empirically. We consider the theoretical implications of parental investmen...

I employ high quality register data to present new facts about income mobility in Sweden. The focus of the paper is on regional differences in mobility, using a novel approach based on a multilevel model. This method is well suited when regions differ greatly in population size, as is the case in Sweden. The maximum likelihood estimates are substantially more precise than those obtained by runn...

Late nineteenth century intergenerational occupational mobility was higher in the US than in Britain. Differences between them in this type of mobility are absent today. Using data on 10,000 US and British father and son pairs followed over two intervals (the 1860s and 1870s, and the 1880s and 1890s), we examine how this convergence occurred. The US remained more mobile then Britain through 190...

Numerous public policies are aimed at improving the earnings opportunities for children of the poor and at reducing lifetime earnings inequality. This paper investigates to what extent such policies accomplish their objectives. A quantitative theory of intergenerational mobility and lifetime earnings inequality is developed and parameterized to match selected features of U.S. data. Numerical ex...

This article develops tools for measuring the role of education in intergenerational social class mobility. Sociologists have long sought a method of decomposing the log odds-ratios involving class origins and destinations into a direct part and an indirect part mediated by education. Drawing on recent work we, first, present such a method and, second, suggest ways in which researchers might su...

This paper provides the first full account of intergenerational mobility in Britain using the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) for the period 1991-1999. We analyse two samples. The first is on all adults who provide information on their parents’ occupation when they were aged 14. We label this as the General Sample (G-Sample). The second is a special sample in which young adults (aged 16 o...

Acknowledging that wage inequality and intergenerational mobility are strongly interrelated, this paper presents a model in which both are jointly determined. The model enables us to study how inequality and mobility are affected by exogenous changes and what determines their correlation. A main implication of the model is that differences in the amount of public subsidies to education and educ...

Intergenerational transmission of income inequality: What do we know? 3 Poverty and parenting young children The role of parenting in the intergenerational transmission of poverty 6 Does increased income reduce child maltreatment? 9 Promoting school readiness through parental engagement 11 Poverty and K-12 schooling K-12 programs to reduce the intergenerational transmission of poverty 13 Intera...