Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851-1911

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050724000391
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 1143-1173
• 关键词: occupational-mobility; UNITED-STATES; britain; AGE; US

摘要

This paper uses a new linked sample constructed from full-count census data of 1851-1911 to revise estimates of intergenerational occupational mobility in England. I find that conventional estimates of intergenerational elasticities are attenuated by classical measurement error and severely underestimate the extent of father-son association in socioeconomic status. Instrumenting one measure of the father's outcome with a second measure of the father's outcome raises the intergenerational elasticities (beta) of occupational status from 0.4 to 0.6-0.7. Victorian England was therefore a society of limited social mobility. The long-run evolution and international comparisons of social mobility in England are discussed.