Theoretical Models of Inequality Transmission Across Multiple Generations

By Gary Solon. 2014

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Existing theoretical models of intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status have strong implications for the association of outcomes across multiple generations of a family. These models, however, are highly stylized and do not encompass many plausible avenues for transmission across multiple generations. This paper extends existing models to encompass some of these avenues and draws out empirical implications for the multigenerational persistence of socioeconomic status.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Mikael Lindahl
2. Mårten Palme
3. A. Sjögren
4. Sofia Sandgren Massih

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Gary Solon
2. Mikael Lindahl
3. Mårten Palme
4. A. Sjögren
5. Sofia Sandgren Massih
6. Miles Corak
7. Florencia Torche
8. Christian Dustmann

Citations in the corpus

• The Transmission of Inequality Across Multiple Generations : Testing Recent Theories with Evidence from Germany (2018, unknown): “Several models of intergenerational mobility can explain such excess persistence (Stuhler, 2012; Zylberberg, 2013; Solon, 2014).”
• A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility (2018, unknown): “If the market offers disproportionate rewards to high human capital, then even modern societies may develop social classes, with considerable mobility within but not across class boundaries.”
• Intergenerational Wealth Mobility and the Role of Inheritance: Evidence from Multiple Generations (2018, unknown): “3 tions by Solon (2014) and Stuhler (2013) discuss reasons for these empirical findings.”
• Long-Term Intergenerational Persistence of Human Capital: An Empirical Analysis of Four Generations (2015, methodology): “Following the theoretical results obtained by Stuhler (2013) and in the framework of the Becker- Tomes model presented at the beginning of Section II, our results suggest that we can reject that the outcome of the child generation does not depend on parental endowments in addition to parental human…”
• What Do We Know So Far about Multigenerational Mobility? (2018, methodology): “Solon (2014) shows that multigenerational mobility in this model follows the AR(2) process itylog intercept 2,1, loglog)( titi yy white-noise error term (3) where ity is the income of the child from family i, 1, tiy is parental income, and 2, tiy is grandparental income.”