Accounting for Individual-Specific Heterogeneity in Intergenerational Income Mobility

Yoosoon Chang (), Steven Durlauf, Bo Hu and Joon Park

No 33349, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper proposes a fully nonparametric model to investigate the dynamics of intergenerational income mobility for discrete outcomes. In our model, an individual’s income class probabilities depend on parental income in a manner that accommodates nonlinearities and interactions among various individual and parental characteristics, including race, education, and parental age at childbearing. Consequently, we offer a generalization of Markov chain mobility models. We employ kernel techniques from machine learning and further regularization for estimating this highly flexible model. Utilizing data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we find that race and parental education interact with parental income in children’s economic prospects in ways that can create bottlenecks in mobility.

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Date: 2025-01
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