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Gary Becker’s Legacy on Intergenerational Mobility

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  • Nezih GUNER

    (ICREA-MOVE, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and GSE, Spain)

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How well do parents’ education, earnings, income, and wealth predict the same outcomes for their children? Scientists have been trying to answer this question for a long time. Francis Galton (1822–1911) was the first to apply statistical methods to tackle this question. Centuries earlier, the great Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) famously observed that the prestige lasted at best four generations in one lineage.

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  • Nezih GUNER, 2015. "Gary Becker’s Legacy on Intergenerational Mobility," JODE - Journal of Demographic Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 81(1), pages 33-43, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:ctl:louvde:v:81:y:2015:i:1:p:33-43
    DOI: 10.1017/dem.2014.16
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    1. Tharcisio Leone, 2019. "Intergenerational Mobility in Education: Estimates of the Worldwide Variation," Journal of Economic Development, Chung-Ang Unviersity, Department of Economics, vol. 44(4), pages 1-42, December.
    2. Justin T. Callais & Vincent Geloso, 2023. "Intergenerational income mobility and economic freedom," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 89(3), pages 732-753, January.

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