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 …

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 …

This study estimates intergenerational wealth correlations across up to four generations and
examines the degree to which the wealth association between parents and children can be …

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 …

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

Despite long-standing recognition of the importance of family background in shaping life
outcomes, only recently have empirical studies in demography, stratification, and other …

This paper studies the origins and function of customs aimed at restricting women's
sexuality, such as a particularly invasive form of female genital cutting, restrictions on …

We document trends in social mobility in Norway using intergenerational income elasticities,
the associations between the income percentiles of fathers and sons, and brother …

We assess the biases induced by measurement error in a study of correlations in
educational attainment across two and three generations in the United States using linked …