Stochastic Monotonicity in Intergenerational Mobility Tables

Valentino Dardanoni (), Mario Fiorini and Antonio Forcina
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Antonio Forcina: University of Perugia

No 156, Working Paper Series from Finance Discipline Group, UTS Business School, University of Technology, Sydney

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to test for stochastic monotonicity in intergenerational socio-economic mobility tables. In other words we question whether having a parent from a high socio-economic status is never worse than having one with a lower status. We ?rst test a set of 149 intergenerational mobility tables in 35 different countries and ?nd that monotonicity cannot be rejected in hardly any table. We then explain how a number of covariates such as education, cognitive and non-cognitive skills can be used to investigate whether monotonicity still holds after conditioning on these variables. Based on the NCDS cohort data from the UK, our results provide evidence that monotonicity holds even conditionally.

Keywords: intergenerational mobility; stochastic monotonicity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22
Date: 2008-05-01
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Published as: Dardanoni, V., Fiorini, M. and Forcina, A., 2012, "Stochastic Monotonicity in Intergenerational Mobility Tables", Journal of Applied Econometrics, 27(1), 85-107.

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