The determinants of children's attainments: A review of methods and findings

R Haveman, B Wolfe - Journal of economic literature, 1995 - JSTOR
THE LEVEL of the nation's investment in children is enormous. Government expenditures on
elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schooling alone totaled about $372 billion in …

Investing in early childhood development in preschool and at home

G Duncan, A Kalil, M Mogstad, M Rege - Handbook of the Economics of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The foundations for successful child development are established in early childhood. Two
main policy approaches for strengthening these foundations have been subsidized …

Intergenerational income mobility in the United States

G Solon - The American Economic Review, 1992 - JSTOR
Social scientists and policy analysts have long expressed concern about the extent of
intergenerational income mobility in the United States, but remarkably little empirical …

An analysis of sample attrition in panel data: The Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics

J Fitzgerald, P Gottschalk, RA Moffitt - 1998 - nber.org
By 1989 the Michigan Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) had experienced
approximately 50 percent sample loss from cumulative attrition from its initial 1968 …

Fortunate sons: New estimates of intergenerational mobility in the United States using social security earnings data

B Mazumder - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005 - direct.mit.edu
Previous studies, relying on short-term averages of fathers' earnings, have estimated the
intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in earnings to be approximately 0.4. Due to persistent …

Income mobility

M Jäntti, SP Jenkins - Handbook of income distribution, 2015 - Elsevier
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Family background, neighborhoods, and intergenerational mobility

M Mogstad, G Torsvik - Handbook of the Economics of the Family, 2023 - Elsevier
This chapter reviews the literature on intergenerational mobility. While our review is
centered around the large empirical literature on this topic, we also give a brief discussion of …

Measuring intergenerational income mobility: A synthesis of approaches

N Deutscher, B Mazumder - Journal of Economic Literature, 2023 - aeaweb.org
The literature on intergenerational income mobility uses a diverse set of measures and there
is limited knowledge about whether these measures provide similar information and yield …

Rags to rags: Poverty and mobility in the United States

M Corcoran - Annual review of sociology, 1995 - annualreviews.org
Early arguments over the “culture of poverty” assumed considerable intergenerational
transmission of poverty but differed over whether this was due to cultural inadequacies of the …

Wealth as one of the “big four” SES dimensions in intergenerational transmissions

M Hällsten, M Thaning - Social Forces, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Recent scholarship on mobility has increasingly incorporated wealth. We ask if wealth
brings anything new to mobility research or is just a standard socioeconomic status (SES) …