Replication data for: Comment: Summarizing income mobility with multiple smooth quantiles instead of parameterized means

Studies of economic mobility summarize the relationship between parent and offspring incomes. At each level of parent income there is an entire distribution of possible incomes for offspring. Mitnik and Grusky (2020, hereafter MG) highlight that the conventional intergenerational elasticity targets the geometric mean and propose a parametric strategy for estimating the arithmetic mean. We decompose each proposal into two choices an analyst must make: (1) the summary statistic for the conditional distribution and (2) whether to assume or learn a functional form. These choices lead us to a different strategy---visualizing several quantiles of the offspring income distribution as smooth, nonparametric functions of parent income. Our proposal solves the problems MG highlight with geometric means, avoids the sensitivity of arithmetic means to top incomes, and provides more information about the conditional distribution than any single-number summary can provide. Our proposal has broader implications for regression analyses, which often collapse a distribution to its mean although this summary can be sensitive to skew.