Multiple Measures of Historical Intergenerational Mobility: Iowa 1915 to 1940

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Feigenbaum, James J.
• 署名单位: Boston University
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12525
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: F446-F481
• 关键词: UNITED-STATES; occupational-mobility; income mobility; great-britain; earnings; POOR; TRENDS; LAND; AGE

摘要

Was intergenerational economic mobility high in the early twentieth century in the US? Comparisons of mobility across time are complicated by the constraints of the data available. I match fathers from the Iowa State Census of 1915 to their sons in the 1940 Federal Census, the first state and federal censuses with data on income and years of education. I can estimate intergenerational mobility between 1915 and 1940 based on earnings, education, occupation, and names. Across all these measures, I document broad consensus that rates of persistence were low in Iowa in the early twentieth century.