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 …

of intergenerational mobility that considers multiple inputs, including mothers’ and fathers’ human capital. To estimate … mobility despite limitations in historical data, we introduce a latent variable method and construct a representative linked … panel that includes women. Our findings reveal that human capital mobility rose sharply from 1850 to 1950, driven by a …

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 …

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 …

allocation and intergenerational mobility. Using Swedish data on skills and personality traits, we estimate a general equilibrium … following and increases intergenerational earnings mobility by a third, benefiting low-income sons most. Exploiting long … with our model. Our results suggest that facilitating more occupational mobility would increase intergenerational income …