Intergenerational mobility: New evidence from consumption data

We present new evidence on trends in intergenerational mobility in the United States using administrative earnings records. We find that percentile rank-based measures of intergenerational mobility have remained extremely stable for the 1971-1993 birth cohorts. For children born between 1971 and 1986, we measure intergenerational mobility based on the correlation between parent and child income percentile ranks. For more recent cohorts, we measure mobility as the correlation between a child's probability of attending college and her parents' income rank. We also calculate transition probabilities, such as a child's chances of reaching the top quintile of the income distribution starting from the bottom quintile. Based on all of these measures, we find that children entering the labor market today have the same chances of moving up in the income distribution (relative to their parents) as children born in the 1970s. However, because inequality has risen, the consequences of the “birth lottery” - the parents to whom a child is born - are larger today than in the past.

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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection on unobserved skills: New evidence

Journal for Labour Market Research ◽

10.1186/s12651-021-00291-3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 55 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Michael Hebsaker ◽

Guido Neidhöfer ◽

Friedhelm Pfeiffer

Keyword(s):

Positive Selection ◽

Intergenerational Mobility ◽

Young Male ◽

Educational Mobility ◽

Educational Improvement ◽

Level Of Education ◽

Young Males ◽

Self Selection ◽

New Evidence ◽

Regions Of Origin

AbstractThis study proposes a novel way to examine self-selection on unobserved skills and applies it to a sample of young males seeking asylum in 2015/2016 in Germany. First, the degree of intergenerational mobility of these refugees is assessed, specifically their educational improvement in comparison to their parents’ level of education. Next, the estimates are compared with the level of educational mobility of similar-aged males in the refugees’ regions of origin. The idea is that this difference indicates the pattern of self-selection on unobserved skills such as grit and motivation. Our findings hint at positive selection on such unobserved skills among these young male refugees.

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Heterogeneous Effects of Intergenerational Social Mobility: An Improved Method and New Evidence

American Sociological Review ◽

10.1177/00031224211052028 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 000312242110520

Author(s):

Liying Luo

Keyword(s):

Social Mobility ◽

Large Scale ◽

Intergenerational Mobility ◽

General Social Survey ◽

Well Being ◽

Improved Method ◽

Contrast Model ◽

Research Areas ◽

Heterogeneous Effects ◽

New Evidence

Intergenerational social mobility has immense implications for individuals’ well-being, attitudes, and behaviors. However, previous methods may be unreliable for estimating heterogeneous mobility effects, especially in the presence of moderate- or large-scale intergenerational mobility. I propose an improved method, called the “mobility contrast model” (MCM). Using simulation evidence, I demonstrate that the MCM is more flexible and reliable for estimating and testing heterogeneous mobility effects, and the results are robust to the scale of intergenerational mobility. I revisit the debate about the effect of mobility on fertility and analyze data from the 1962 Occupational Changes in a Generation Study (OCG-1) and more recent data from the 1974 through 2018 General Social Survey (GSS) using previous models and the MCM. The MCM suggests a small association between fertility and occupational mobility in the GSS data but substantial and heterogeneous educational mobility effects on fertility in the OCG-1 and the GSS. Such effects are difficult to pinpoint using previous methods because mobility effects of different magnitudes and opposite directions among mobility groups may cancel each other out. The new method can be extended to investigate the effect of intergenerational mobility across multiple generations and other research areas, including immigrant assimilation and heterogamy.

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Systematic effects in observed parallaxes

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100073887 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 48 ◽

pp. 31-35

Author(s):

R. B. Hanson

Keyword(s):

Error Estimates ◽

Zero Point ◽

Absolute Zero ◽

Apparent Magnitude ◽

Coherent System ◽

Preliminary Results ◽

General Catalogue ◽

Systematic Effects ◽

New Evidence ◽

Right Ascension

Several outstanding problems affecting the existing parallaxes should be resolved to form a coherent system for the new General Catalogue proposed by van Altena, as well as to improve luminosity calibrations and other parallax applications. Lutz has reviewed several of these problems, such as: (A) systematic differences between observatories, (B) external error estimates, (C) the absolute zero point, and (D) systematic observational effects (in right ascension, declination, apparent magnitude, etc.). Here we explore the use of cluster and spectroscopic parallaxes, and the distributions of observed parallaxes, to bring new evidence to bear on these classic problems. Several preliminary results have been obtained.

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MERLIN Finds New Evidence of Ranolazine Safety

Internal Medicine News ◽

10.1016/s1097-8690(07)70525-5 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 40 (9) ◽

pp. 36

Author(s):

BRUCE JANCIN

Keyword(s):

New Evidence

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Vaccination for travellers – new evidence and recommendations

Therapeutische Umschau ◽

10.1024/0040-5930.58.6.362 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 58 (6) ◽

pp. 362-366 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Matius P. Stürchler ◽

R. P. Steffen

Keyword(s):

Hepatitis B ◽

Hepatitis A ◽

New Evidence

Impfungen sind einfache und effektive Maßnahmen zur Verhinderung von Reisekrankheiten. Compliance-Probleme sind gering, da alle Impfungen noch vor Abreise verabreicht werden und bei manchen Impfungen nur eine Dosis für den zuverlässigen Schutz nötig ist. Für jeden Reisenden sind die Hepatitis A- und die Diphtherie-Tetanus-Impfung empfohlen, für Asien und Afrika auch die Polioimpfung. Bei Reisen >30 Tagen, jüngeren Personen und Reisenden mit Risikoverhalten sollte immer auch eine Hepatitis B-Impfung, eventuell als Kombination mit Hepatitis A in Betracht gezogen werden. Je nach Reisestil, -destination und -dauer können auch weitere Impfungen wie z.B. die Typhus-, Tollwut-, Zeckenenzephalitis-, Grippe-, Masern-Mumps-Röteln-, Gelbfieber-, Meningokokkenmeningitis- und die Japanische Enzephalitis-Impfung in Frage kommen. Mehrere Impfungen können gleichzeitig verabreicht werden – eine Staffelung ist nicht nötig. i BAG Supplementum VI, Stand Juli 2000 «Impfungen für Auslandreisende»; http://www.admin.ch/bag/infekt/prev/reisemed/index.htm; Safetravel http://www.safetravel.ch; Tropimed

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