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The Rise of American Ingenuity : Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2017

We examine the golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking historical U ….S. patents to state and county-level aggregates and matching inventors to Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940. We identify a … macro and micro-level determinants. We find a positive relationship between innovation and drivers of regional performance …

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Intergenerational Mobility and Support for Redistribution

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2017

Using new cross-country survey and experimental data, we investigate how beliefs about intergenerational mobility affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the U.K., and the U.S.. Americans are more optimistic than Europeans about social mobility. Our randomized treatment...

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The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility Ii : County-Level Estimates

Chetty, Raj - 2017

We estimate the causal effect of each county in the U.S. on children's incomes in adulthood. We first estimate a fixed effects model that is identified by analyzing families who move across counties with children of different ages. We then use these fixed effect estimates to (a) quantify how...

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The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I : Childhood Exposure Effects

Chetty, Raj - 2017

We show that the neighborhoods in which children grow up shape their earnings, college attendance rates, and fertility and marriage patterns by studying more than seven million families who move across commuting zones and counties in the U.S. Exploiting variation in the age of children when...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility

Card, David E. - 2018

We use 1940 Census data to study the intergenerational transmission of human capital for children born in the 1920s and educated during an era of expanding but unequally distributed public school resources. Looking at the gains in educational attainment between parents and children, we document...

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"And Yet it Moves" : Intergenerational Mobility in Italy

Acciari, Paolo - 2019

We link tax returns across two generations to provide the first estimate of intergenerational mobility in Italy based on administrative income data. Italy emerges as less immobile than previously depicted by studies using proxies for economic status or survey data with imputation procedures....

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Intergenerational Mobility in Africa

Alesina, Alberto - 2019

We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence using census data. First, we map IM across 27 countries and more than 2,800 regions, documenting wide cross-country and especially within-country heterogeneity. Inertia looms large as differences in...

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The Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants

Borjas, George J. - 2021

This paper analyzes the intergenerational mobility of immigrants. Using the 1940-1970 Censuses, the study reveals an important link between the earnings of immigrants and the earnings of their American-born children. Although there is some regression towards the mean, the earnings of...

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Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States

Chetty, Raj - 2014

We use administrative records on the incomes of more than 40 million children and their parents to describe three features of intergenerational mobility in the United States. First, we characterize the joint distribution of parent and child income at the national level. The conditional...

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Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States : An Intergenerational Perspective

Chetty, Raj - 2018

We study the sources of racial disparities in income using anonymized longitudinal data covering nearly the entire U.S. population from 1989-2015. We document three results. First, black Americans and American Indians have much lower rates of upward mobility and higher rates of downward mobility...

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