What Do We Know So Far about Multigenerational Mobility?

Gary Solon

Economic Journal, 2018, vol. 128, issue 612, F340-F352

Abstract: ‘Multigenerational mobility’ refers to the associations in socio‐economic status across three or more generations. This article begins by summarising the long‐standing but recently growing empirical literature on multigenerational mobility. It then discusses multiple theoretical interpretations of the empirical patterns, including the one recently proposed in Gregory Clark's book The Son Also Rises.

Date: 2018
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