Rising inequalities in rich countries have led to concerns that the economic ladder is getting
harder to climb. Yet, research on trends in intergenerational income mobility finds conflicting …

Earnings segregation at work is an understudied topic in social science, despite the
workplace being an everyday nexus for social mixing, cohesion, contact, claims making, and …

Race and gender disparities in elite career progression–including hiring, pay, and
promotions–are the focus of a voluminous body of academic research, as well as major …

We investigate the role of firms in intergenerational mobility by decomposing the
intergenerational elasticity of earnings (IGE) into firm-IGE and individual-IGE using a two …

Only recently have sociologists begun to examine the social origins of educational
mismatches in more detail. This research not only repeatedly found, but also investigated …

Research on the influence of family background on college graduates' earnings has not
considered the importance of the match between parents' and children's field of study. Using …

Studies of intergenerational occupational mobility typically characterize occupations
quantitatively in one of two ways: gradationally or categorically. Both methods likely grossly …

To what extent does the sorting of workers across firms contribute to intergenerational
persistence, and why? We show that differences in firm pay premia account for 31% of the …

We provide a practical toolkit for analyzing effect heterogeneity in event studies. We develop
an estimation algorithm and adapt existing econometric results to provide its theoretical …

We investigate the role of firms in intergenerational mobility by decomposing the
intergenerational elasticity of earnings (IGE) into firm-IGE and individual-IGE components …