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Long-term decline in intergenerational mobility in the United States since the 1850s.

ABSTRACT: We make use of newly available data that include roughly 5 million linked household and population records from 1850 to 2015 to document long-term trends in intergenerational social mobility in the United States. Intergenerational mobility declined substantially over the past 150 y, but more slowly than previously thought. Intergenerational occupational rank-rank correlations increased from less than 0.17 to as high as 0.32, but most of this change occurred to Americans born before 1900. After controlling for the relatively high mobility of persons from farm origins, we find that intergenerational social mobility has been remarkably stable. In contrast with relative stability in rank-based measures of mobility, absolute mobility for the nonfarm population-the fraction of offspring whose occupational ranks are higher than those of their parents-increased for birth cohorts born prior to 1900 and has fallen for those born after 1940.

SUBMITTER: Song X

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6955340 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Long-term decline in intergenerational mobility in the United States since the 1850s.

Song Xi X Massey Catherine G CG Rolf Karen A KA Ferrie Joseph P JP Rothbaum Jonathan L JL Xie Yu Y

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20191125 1

We make use of newly available data that include roughly 5 million linked household and population records from 1850 to 2015 to document long-term trends in intergenerational social mobility in the United States. Intergenerational mobility declined substantially over the past 150 y, but more slowly than previously thought. Intergenerational occupational rank-rank correlations increased from less than 0.17 to as high as 0.32, but most of this change occurred to Americans born before 1900. After c ...[more]

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Long-term decline in intergenerational mobility in the United States since the 1850s.

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Long-term decline in intergenerational mobility in the United States since the 1850s.

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