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What Do We Know So Far about Multigenerational Mobility?

Author(s) -

Solon Gary

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

the economic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.683

H-Index - 160

eISSN - 1468-0297

pISSN - 0013-0133

DOI - 10.1111/ecoj.12495

Subject(s) - social mobility , positive economics , empirical research , sociology , economic geography , demographic economics , genealogy , economics , history , epistemology , social science , philosophy

‘Multigenerational mobility’ refers to the associations in socio‐economic status across three or more generations. This article begins by summarising the long‐standing but recently growing empirical literature on multigenerational mobility. It then discusses multiple theoretical interpretations of the empirical patterns, including the one recently proposed in Gregory Clark's book The Son Also Rises .

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