In this paper we estimate social mobility rates, free of measurement errors, using register data for Denmark and Sweden … locations in family trees, such as cousins relative to siblings. Three things emerge from these estimates. First social mobility … reputation for high social mobility rates, have nearly the same degree of persistence as in modern England, and also nineteenth …

We estimate intergenerational mobility of immigrants and their children in fifteen receiving countries. We document …-generation gap can be explained by differences in parental income, with the remainder due to differential rates of absolute mobility …. The daughters of immigrants enjoy higher absolute mobility than daughters of locals in most destinations, while immigrant …

depression and anxiety scores to be 0.61 and 0.68, respectively, suggesting low mobility in mental health. However, once we allow … for the mobility estimates to vary along the distribution of parental mental health, we find notable heterogeneity - while … severe symptoms experience significant improvements in mental health. This upward mobility in mental health is largely driven …

Among economists, empirical analysis of social mobility and the role of parental background is largely carried out in … two separate strands of research. The intergenerational mobility literature estimates parent-child persistence in a … approaches by estimating equality of opportunity and intergenerational mobility measures - as well as sibling correlations …