Atheoretical formulation derived from the cumulative advantage literature, that
intergenerational educational mobility has enduring life-course income effects above and …

This study demonstrates that studying ethnic/racial inequality on the basis of cross-sectional
data conceals how such inequality might unfold over the life course. Moving beyond a …

This study brings to the fore the importance of absolute intergenerational educational
mobility rates and patterns and its consequences for long-term earnings trajectories …

We test a prediction of cumulative advantage theory about enduring life cycle effects of
educational mobility on earnings. We identify four mobility groups by cross-classifying …

Although most studies of the transition from school to work take a snapshot perspective in
examining economic returns to education, such returns evolve over an individual's lifetime …

A growing body of social science research has investigated whether the economic payo to a
college education is heterogeneous—in particular, whether socioeconomically …