Global Database on Intergenerational Income Mobility

This Global Database contains estimates of intergenerational income mobility for 87 countries, covering 84 percent of the world’s population. Intergenerational income mobility measures the extent to which a child’s income depends on his or her parents’ income. This is achieved by processing individual data from at least 156 surveys and employing the Two-Sample Two-Stage Least Squares (TSTSLS) approach proposed by Bjorklund and Jantti (1997).