Lower intergenerational income mobility for blacks is a likely cause behind the persistent interracial gap in economic … status in the United States. However, few studies have analyzed black-white differences in intergenerational income mobility … traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles. We then introduce a new measure of upward mobility which …

PSID. We estimate that the rank-rank slope in SRHS is 0.26. We show that including both parent health and income in models … health and then use this to combine income and health into a measure of welfare and estimate the rank-rank slope to be about …

rose from 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 …

The literature on intergenerational income mobility uses a diverse set of measures and there is limited knowledge about … main analysis uses income tax data from Australia to produce a comprehensive set of empirical estimates for each of 19 …