Interpreting Trends in Intergenerational Mobility

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Nybom, Martin; Stuhler, Jan
• 署名单位: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/729582
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 2531-2570
• 关键词: social-mobility; UNITED-STATES; growing importance; income; FAMILY; INEQUALITY; opportunity; demand; norway; size

摘要

Studying a dynamic model of intergenerational transmission, we show that past events affect contemporaneous trends in intergenerational mobility. Structural changes may generate long-lasting mobility trends that can be nonmonotonic, and declining mobility may reflect past gains rather than a recent deterioration of equality of opportunity. We provide two applications. We first show that changes in the parent generation have partially offset the effect of rising skill premia on income mobility in the United States. We then show that a Swedish school reform reduced the transmission of inequalities in the directly affected generation but increased their persistence in the next.