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ERIC Number: EJ1485923
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Nov
Pages: 27
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0049-1241
EISSN: EISSN-1552-8294
Available Date: 0000-00-00
Accounting for Individual-Specific Heterogeneity in Intergenerational Income Mobility
Sociological Methods & Research, v54 n4 p1505-1531 2025
This article proposes a fully nonparametric model to investigate the dynamics of intergenerational income mobility for discrete outcomes. In our model, an individual's income class probabilities depend on parental income in a manner that accommodates nonlinearities and interactions among various individual and parental characteristics, including race, education, and parental age at childbearing, and so generalizes Markov chain mobility models. We show how the model may be estimated using kernel techniques from machine learning. Utilizing data from the panel study of income dynamics, we show how race, parental education, and mother's age at birth interact with family income to determine mobility between generations.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Panel Study of Income Dynamics
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Author Affiliations: 1Department of Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA; 2Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA