2018
DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12364
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Dynastic Inequality Compared: Multigenerational Mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany

Abstract: Using harmonized household survey data, we analyze long‐run social mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, and test recent theories of multigenerational persistence of socioeconomic status. In this country comparison setting, we find evidence against a universal law of social mobility. Our results show that the long‐run persistence of socioeconomic status and the validity of a first‐order Markov chain in the intergenerational transmission of human capital is country‐specific. Furthermor… Show more

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“…Lindahl et al (2015) and Braun and Stuhler (2018) document that the iterated regression procedure overestimates educational mobility across three generations in, respectively, Sweden and Germany. Neidhöfer and Stockhausen (2018) corroborate Braun and Stuhler (2018) findings for Germany and show that there exist excess persistence also in the UK. Outside of Europe, the available evidence suggests that the iterated regression procedure overestimates schooling mobility in Chile (Celhay and Gallegos, 2015) and in the US (Kroeger and Thompson, 2016;Neidhöfer and Stockhausen, 2018).…”
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confidence: 80%
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“…Lindahl et al (2015) and Braun and Stuhler (2018) document that the iterated regression procedure overestimates educational mobility across three generations in, respectively, Sweden and Germany. Neidhöfer and Stockhausen (2018) corroborate Braun and Stuhler (2018) findings for Germany and show that there exist excess persistence also in the UK. Outside of Europe, the available evidence suggests that the iterated regression procedure overestimates schooling mobility in Chile (Celhay and Gallegos, 2015) and in the US (Kroeger and Thompson, 2016;Neidhöfer and Stockhausen, 2018).…”
Section: −1supporting
confidence: 80%
“…Studies exploiting data directly linking three generations (e.g. Lindahl et al, 2015;Braun and Stuhler, 2018;Neidhöfer and Stockhausen, 2018), show instead that typical estimates of intergenerational mobility are downward biased, albeit not as much as suggested by Clark and Cummins (2014). According to the estimations of the latent factor conducted by Braun and Stuhler (2018) and Neidhöfer and Stockhausen (2018) traditional intergenerational mobility estimates in Germany, Sweden, and the UK suffer from an attenuation bias.…”
Section: Measurement Error Modelsmentioning
confidence: 97%
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