We show that intergenerational mobility changed rapidly by race and class in recent decades in the U.S. and study the causal mechanisms underlying those changes. Between the 1978 and 1992 birth cohort
The study uses complete-count register data from Sweden, spanning three generations, to compare inter- and multigenerational transmission processes across municipalities. We first document spatial pat
Supplemental material, sj-do-2-soe-10.1177_00380407231210279 for Trends and Determinants of Intergenerational Educational Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa for Birth Cohorts 1974 to 2003 by Ilze Plavgo
We use historical census data to show that Sweden exhibited high levels of intergenerational occupational mobility several decades before the rise of the welfare state. Mobility rates were higher than
