What Do We Know So Far about Multigenerational Mobility?

By Gary Solon. Economic Journal, 2018

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“Multigenerational mobility” refers to the associations in socioeconomic status across three or more generations. This article begins by summarizing the longstanding but recently growing empirical literature on multigenerational mobility. It then discusses multiple theoretical interpretations of the empirical patterns, including the one recently proposed in Gregory Clark’s book The Son Also Rises.

Subfields: Demography, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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• Intergenerational Wealth Mobility and the Role of Inheritance: Evidence from Multiple Generations (2018, unknown): “Second, there has been an increased interest in questions related to multigenerational mobility in recent years (Solon, 2015).”
• Intergenerational Mobility in the Very Long Run: Florence 1427–2011 (2020, background): “On the other hand, persistence in some selected professions (historically characterized by a high level of protection of the incumbents) might suggest that labor market institutions are also important.”