This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on
the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps …

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 …

Using individual data from over 400 household surveys, this paper compiles a global
database of intergenerational mobility in education for 153 countries covering 97 percent of …

Children represent the largest indirect beneficiaries of the US social welfare system. Yet,
many questions remain about the direct benefits of cash aid to children. The current …

We estimate long-run trends in intergenerational relative mobility for representative samples
of the US-born population. Harmonizing all surveys that include father's occupation and own …

Studying a dynamic model of intergenerational transmission, we show that past events affect
contemporaneous trends in intergenerational mobility. Structural changes may generate …

We examine trends in intergenerational educational mobility throughout the 20th century in
Denmark. We demonstrate that major reforms in compulsory schooling substantially …

Social mobility—usually understood as movement from a lower to a higher level of
education or occupational status, or from a lower to a higher social class or income group …

The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family
linkages but fails to provide credible evidence about the underlying family factors that drive …

This paper investigates how the earnings of young workers are affected by the
intergenerational transmission of employers–which refers to individuals working for the …