Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility

By Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick M. Kline, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner. 2014

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Biases in Standard Measures of Intergenerational Income Dependence (2017, background): “14 One particular example is Corak and Piraino (2010), who illustrate that the transmission of employers is remarkably high in the very top in Canada.”
Two-Sample Two-Stage Least Squares (TSTSLS) Estimates of Earnings Mobility: How Consistent are They? (2014, neutral): “In additional analyses 17 See equation (11) for the relationship between and R. (available upon request) we follow Chetty et al (2014) and Gregg, MacMillian and Vittori (2014) and produce rank-rank mobility estimates using TSTSLS. Key findings are very similar to those for the transition matrices…”
Foundations for Young Adult Success: A Developmental Framework (2015, neutral): “12 Chetty et al. (2014a), Chetty et al.”
Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility (2013, methodology): “Figures 2 and 3 contrast, by way of illustration, mobility in the United States and Canada for sons raised by fathers with incomes in the top 10 percent, and for those raised by fathers in the bottom 10 percent. In Corak (2010), I argue that the comparison of these two countries is particularly apt”
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility (2018, neutral): “Thus unlike our model, prior theories offer no clear explanation for the low mobility in upper parts of the income distribution that has been documented by Corak and Heisz (1999), Mazumder (2005a), Chetty et al. (2014a), and Clark (2014).13”
Perspectives on Inequality and Opportunity from the Survey of Consumer Finances (2014, background): “…bottom half held 4 percent. r s f : t h e r u s s e l l s a g e f o u n d at i o n j o u r n a l o f t h e s o c i a l s c i e n c e s related (see Chetty et al. 2014; see also OECD 2010; Krueger 2012). four buIldIng bloCKs of opportunIt y An important factor influencing intergenerational…”
Skills, education, and the rise of earnings inequality among the “other 99 percent” (2014, background): “Indeed, two of the strongest predictors of children’s ultimate educational attainment are parental education and parental earnings (45, 46).”
Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States* (2014, methodology): “In Chetty et al. (2014), we use data from the 1993 birth cohort and regress an indicator for college attendance at age 19 on parent income rank in each year from 1996 to 2012.”
The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940 (2017, background): “These findings contrast with prior research showing that relative mobility—measured, for instance, by the correlation between parents’ and children’s incomes—remained stable in recent decades (13, 15).”