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This paper estimates historical intergenerational elasticities between fathers and children of
both sexes in the United States using a novel empirical strategy. The key insight of our …

We propose a new methodology for measuring intergenerational mobility in economic well-
being. Our method is based on the joint distribution of surnames and economic outcomes. It …

This article shows that across multiple generations, the persistence of occupational and
educational attainment in Germany is larger than estimates from two generations suggest …

We examine intergenerational mobility in the very long run, across generations that are six
centuries apart. We exploit a unique dataset containing detailed information at the individual …

We construct comparable measures of intergenerational mobility (IM) for 103 Italian
provinces using the methodology of Güell et al.(2007, 2015 a) and explore their correlation …

There are large differences in intergenerational mobility between countries. Little is known,
however, about how persistent such differences are, and how they evolve over time. This …

This paper explains how surname distributions can be used as a way to measure rates of
social mobility in contemporary and historical societies. This allows for estimates of social …

Recent studies use names—first and surnames—to estimate intergenerational mobility in
sources that lack direct family links. While generating novel evidence on intergenerational …

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 …