Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851-1911

<span>This is the replication package for "Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851-1911" in the <i>Journal of Economic History</i>.<br><br>Abstract of the paper:<br>This paper
uses a new linked sample constructed from full-count census data of 1851-1911
to revise estimates of intergenerational occupational mobility in England. I
find that conventional estimates of intergenerational elasticities are
attenuated by classical measurement error and severely underestimate the extent
of father-son association in socioeconomic status. Instrumenting one measure of
the father’s outcome with a second measure of the father’s outcome raises the
intergenerational elasticities (<i>β</i>) of occupational status from 0.4 to
0.6-0.7. Victorian England was therefore a society of limited social mobility.
The long-run evolution and international comparisons of social mobility in
England are discussed.</span><br>