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Mobility
Intergenerational correlations, fathers and sons, U.S., U.K., Europe, and Scandinavia
The role of education and education-based wage differentials on intergenerational mobility
Estimated correlations between sons’ and parents’ incomes, 1950-2000
Income quartile of the entering class at top universities and community colleges
Probability for daughters of fathers in bottom 20% to escape bottom 40%
College completion by income status and 8th grade test scores
Probability of sons of fathers in bottom 20% to escape bottom 40%
Intergenerational mobility by college education
Cumulative growth in family income volatility since 1973
Probability that children born in bottom income quartile end up in either lowest or highest income quartile as adults
Share of families that experience a 50% or greater drop in income
Likelihood that low-income son ends up above various income thresholds, depending on estimated ease of mobility
Education correlations of parents and children
Percent of children who end up in the bottom fifth as adults based on parent’s income
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