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The Great Escape: Intergenerational Mobility in the United States Since 1940 / Nathaniel G. Hilger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hilger, Nathaniel G.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w21217.
- NBER working paper series no. w21217
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Great Escape
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015.
- Summary:
- I develop a method to estimate intergenerational mobility (IM) in education on large cross-sectional surveys and apply the method to U.S. census data from 1940 to 2000. The method estimates IM directly for children age 26-29 who still live with parents and adjusts for independent children using a procedure that I validate extensively. Estimates imply large post-1940 gains in IM that were (1) driven primarily by large IM gains in the South for both whites and blacks, (2) larger for blacks due to their greater concentration in the South, and (3) driven by high school rather than college enrollment.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2015.
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