Intergenerational Income Mobility Among Daughters

Of income dynamics to investigate intergenerational mobility among daughters.

Intergenerational income mobility among daughters. This is more salient in the recent cohort in our data people born 1963 to 1975. Using a novel decomposition method applied to data from the panel study of income dynamics we find that marriage plays a major role in intergenerational transmission only among daughters and not until they reach their late 30s. New evidence on daughters intergenerational mobility in a framework that encompasses women not in the labor force using broader measures of economic status than just the women s own earnings is. We also find that assortative mating is an important element in the intergenerational transmission process.

Intergenerational income mobility among daughters by laura chadwick and gary solon the early empirical literature on intergenera tional income mobility in the united states fo cused mainly on the association of earnings between fathers and sons. This literature sug gested that the elasticity of son s earnings with. In particular a rise of 10 in fathers individual earnings is on average associated with an increase of 3 61 and 3 94 for sons individual earnings and. Intergenerational income mobility among daughters by laura chadwick and gary solon.

Published in volume 92 issue 1 pages 335 344 of american economic review march 2002. 5 what do trends in the intergenerational economic mobility of sons and daughters in the united states mean. The baseline intergenerational elasticity estimates show that vietnam occupies the intermediate degrees of intergenerational mobility of earnings and income for both sons and daughters. We find that intergenerational transmission of income status may be somewhat weaker for daughters than for sons but is still quite substantial.

Intergenerational income mobility among daughters by laura chadwick and gary solon the early empirical literature on intergenera tional income mobility in the united states fo cused mainly on the association of earnings between fathers and sons. Mobility persistence and the consequences of poverty for children. In particular my objective is to estimate intergenerational elasticity ige of sons and daughters individual earnings individual income and family income with respective to father s individual earnings. Intergenerational income mobility among daughters american economic review.

This literature sug gested that the elasticity of son s earnings with.