Althoff, Lukas; Brookes Gray, Harriet; Reichardt, Hugo - 2026 - Original version: March 2025, this version: Januar 2026
parents’ human capital, develop a latent variable method leveraging literacy as a proxy, and construct a representative linked … panel that includes women. We find that intergenerational mobility - in both human capital and income - rose sharply from … the 19th to the 20th century. Initially, maternal human capital was most predictive of children’s outcomes. However, as …