AME Labour Economics Seminar: Elisa Jácome (Northwestern University)
Seminar
Date: Thursday 22 September 2022
Time: 10.00 – 11.15
Location: F800
Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the 20th Century (joint work with Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu)
AME Labour Economics Seminar, at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI):
Elisa Jácome from Northwestern University presents Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the 20th Century (joint work with Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu)
This is an in-person only event.
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Abstract
We estimate long-run trends in intergenerational relative mobility for representative samples of the U.S.-born population. Harmonizing all surveys that include father’s occupation and own family income, we develop a mobility measure that allows for the inclusion of non-whites and women for the 1910s–1970s birth cohorts. We show that mobility increases between the 1910s and 1940s cohorts and that the decline of Black-white income gaps explains about half of this rise. We also find that excluding Black Americans, particularly women, considerably overstates the level of mobility for twentieth-century birth cohorts while simultaneously understating its increase between the 1910s and 1940s.
Last updated: September 16, 2022
Source: SOFI