Recent developments in intergenerational mobility
By: Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux
Contributors: Devereux, Paul J.; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15889; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15889.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "Economists and social scientists have long been interested in intergenerational mobility, and documenting the persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research.  However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics, the literature has taken an interesting turn.  In addition to focusing on obtaining precise estimates of correlations and elasticities, the literature has placed increased emphasis on the causal mechanisms that underlie this relationship.  This chapter describes the developments in the intergenerational transmission literature since the 1999 Handbook Chapter.  While there have been some important contributions in terms of measurement of elasticities and correlations, we focus primarily on advances in our understanding of the forces driving the relationship and less on the precision of the correlations themselves"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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