The Return to College, Marriage, and Intergenerational Mobility

<p><span>This dataset is a custom extract from the public-use Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), produced through the PSID Data Center (Job ID J320456). The extract contains 775 family-level variables drawn from multiple survey waves spanning 1968 through 2019. Variables were selected to construct demographic, geographic, and educational measures for the household reference person (head) and spouse/partner.</span></p><p><span>The extract includes variables on age, sex, race, education, parental education, place of birth, state of residence, state grew up, state at age 25, and related interview year identifiers. The data are organized in wide format across waves in the original extract and are subsequently processed using the accompanying replication code to create harmonized cross-sectional measures based on the most recent non-missing report for each individual. The replication files also reshape the data into an individual-level long format separating head and spouse observations.</span></p><p><br></p>