Corak Intergenerational mobility Over Time and Space
Channel: MilesCorak
Date: 2020-04-02

This presentation summarizes research on how we should think about and interpret changes in  intergenerational income mobility over time, and across space.

The empirical literature is not clear on the degree to which, or even whether, intergenational income mobility has changed in the United States. The focus in this presentation is to interpret these conflicting findings with the aid of theory, which leads us to appreciate not only that multiple causes may be at work, but also that the dynamics of mobility may have very long lags and follow non monotonic patterns in adjusting to a new steady state.

This is the 7th lecture of a course called "Inequality, Economic Opportunity, and Public Policy" that I teach at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and was presented to my students in April 2020.


You can view all of the course materials at:
https://milescorak.com/equality-of-opportunity/teaching/lecture-7/