WHERE IS THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY? THE GEOGRAPHY OF INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY IN THE UNITED STATES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chetty, Raj; Hendren, Nathaniel; Kline, Patrick; Saez, Emmanuel
• 署名单位: Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• 刊物名称: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-5533
• DOI: 10.1093/qje/qju022
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 1553-1623
• 关键词: income mobility; earnings; white; black; segregation; attainment; INEQUALITY; ECONOMICS; TRENDS

摘要

We use administrative records on the incomes of more than 40 million children and their parents to describe three features of intergenerational mobility in the United States. First, we characterize the joint distribution of parent and child income at the national level. The conditional expectation of child income given parent income is linear in percentile ranks. On average, a 10 percentile increase in parent income is associated with a 3.4 percentile increase