Social scientists have long documented that many components of socioeconomic status such as income and education have … status gets transmitted to their children. Once we add additional mediators to the model, we show that education, and … particularly children's education, is an important transmission channel in that it reduces the IHA by one third. Finally, we show …

0.27 to 0.4 and the IGE rose from 0.35 to 0.51. The share of children whose income exceeds that of their parents fell by …

than income mobility in the US. A possible explanation is that social institutions and policies are more effective at … disrupting intergenerational health transmission than income transmission. We further show that health and income each capture a … of health mobility compared with income mobility and also find some evidence that there has been a notable decline in …