Fortunate Sons: New Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States Using Social Security Earnings Data

By B. Mazumder. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005

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Parental education, class and income over early life course and children's achievement (2016, result): “Thus we were confident in ignoring both individual-level and residual heterogeneity components in the results reported below (for similar reasoning, see also Mazumder, 2005).”
Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility (2010, methodology): “Based on Table 1 and Mazumder (2005), a reasonable guess is an IGE in the U.S. of about .5 to .6.”
Equalization or Selection? Reassessing the “Meritocratic Power” of a College Degree in Intergenerational Income Mobility (2019, background): “…35 to 44 years old, an age range during which a respondent’s income serves as the best proxy for her lifetime economic standing (Haider and Solon 2006; Mazumder 2005).10 When respondents were young and lived in their parents’ households, parents provided income reports on a special survey section.”
A comparison of upward and downward intergenerational mobility in Canada, Sweden and the United States (2014, methodology): “A second important difference is that Mazumder (2005) only used the 1984 SIPP whereas we have added samples 191M. Corak et al. / Labour Economics 30 (2014) 185–200 permanent income, and in the average age of fathers when we observe their income.”
Dads and Daughters: The Changing Impact of Fathers on Women's Occupational Choices (2011, background): “…with perhaps the best current estimate of a stable intergenerational income parameter in the United States between fathers and sons standing at 0.6 (Mazumder, 2005).3 Because these estimates just measure a correlation across generations, they cannot distinguish between a simple model of genetic…”
Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the United States, 1940 to 2000 (2012, methodology): “Mazumder (2005) shows that long time averages are needed to fully solve the problem.”
Biases in Standard Measures of Intergenerational Income Dependence (2017, background): “Elasticity estimates are sensitive to both attenuation (Solon, 1992; Mazumder, 2005) and life-cycle bias from heterogeneous age-income profiles (Grawe, 2006; Haider & Solon, 2006; Nybom & Stuhler, forthcoming).”
American Exceptionalism in a New Light: A Comparison of Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the Nordic Countries, the United Kingdom and the United States (2006, positive): “comparable datasets, Levine & Mazumder (2002) find that the standard errors for the elasticity”
Income inequality as a cause of the Great Recession?: A survey of current debates (2012, background): “tergenerational mobility is already low by international standards and further declining (see OECD, 2008a, ch. 8; Bowles and Gintis, 2002; Mazumder, 2005; Andrews and Leigh, 2009).”