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Dynastic Inequality Compared: Multigenerational Mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany

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  • Guido Neidhöfer
  • Maximilian Stockhausen

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Using harmonized household survey data, we analyze long‐run social mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, and test recent theories of multigenerational persistence of socioeconomic status. In this country comparison setting, we find evidence against a universal law of social mobility. Our results show that the long‐run persistence of socioeconomic status and the validity of a first‐order Markov chain in the intergenerational transmission of human capital is country‐specific. Furthermore, we find that the direct and independent effect of grandparents' social status on grandchildren's status tends to vary by gender and institutional context.

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  • Guido Neidhöfer & Maximilian Stockhausen, 2019. "Dynastic Inequality Compared: Multigenerational Mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 65(2), pages 383-414, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revinw:v:65:y:2019:i:2:p:383-414
    DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12364
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    1. Jo Blanden & Matthias Doepke & Jan Stuhler, 2022. "Education inequality," CEP Discussion Papers dp1849, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    2. Guido Neidhöfer, 2019. "Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality: Lessons from Latin America," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 17(4), pages 499-520, December.
    3. Neidhöfer, Guido & Serrano, Joaquín & Gasparini, Leonardo, 2018. "Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America: A new database," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 134(C), pages 329-349.
    4. Santavirta, Torsten & Stuhler, Jan, 2024. "Name-Based Estimators of Intergenerational Mobility," IZA Discussion Papers 16725, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    5. Pablo Celhay & Sebastian Gallegos, 2023. "Educational Mobility Across Three Generations in Latin American Countries," Working Papers 2023-013, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.
    6. Colagrossi, Marco & d’Hombres, Béatrice & Schnepf, Sylke V, 2020. "Like (grand)parent, like child? Multigenerational mobility across the EU," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 130(C).
    7. Matthew Hale & Graham Raymond & Catherine Wright, 2020. "List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in 2019," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 73(4), pages 1153-1202, November.

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