The concept of generations has become increasingly important in the social science fields to
explain diverse phenomena affecting organizations. This is especially true in the family …

The presence of a westward‐moving frontier of settlement shaped early US history. In 1893,
the historian Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the American frontier fostered …

Using millions of father-son pairs spanning more than 100 years of US history, we find that
children of immigrants from nearly every sending country have higher rates of upward …

The recent digitization of complete count census data is an extraordinary opportunity for
social scientists to create large longitudinal datasets by linking individuals from one census …

We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since
independence using census data. First, we map IM across 27 countries and more than 2800 …

How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does
it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid …

We study the link between market forces, cross-sectional inequality, and intergenerational
mobility. Emphasizing complementarities in the production of human capital, we show that …

The literature on intergenerational income mobility uses a diverse set of measures and there
is limited knowledge about whether these measures provide similar information and yield …

This article studies the long-run effects of slavery and restrictive Jim Crow institutions on
Black Americans' economic outcomes. We track individual-level census records of each …

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 …