Multiple Measures of Historical Intergenerational Mobility: Iowa 1915 to 1940

IF 3.8 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-06-11 DOI:10.1111/ecoj.12525

James J. Feigenbaum

引用次数: 65

Abstract

Was intergenerational economic mobility high in the early twentieth century in the US? Comparisons of mobility across time are complicated by the constraints of the data available. I match fathers from the Iowa State Census of 1915 to their sons in the 1940 Federal Census, the first state and federal censuses with data on income and years of education. I can estimate intergenerational mobility between 1915 and 1940 based on earnings, education, occupation, and names. Across all these measures, I document broad consensus that rates of persistence were low in Iowa in the early twentieth century.

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历史代际流动的多重测量:爱荷华州1915年至1940年

20世纪初的美国，代际经济流动性高吗?由于现有数据的限制，跨时间的流动性比较变得复杂。我将1915年爱荷华州人口普查中的父亲与1940年联邦人口普查中的儿子进行了对比，这是第一次有收入和受教育年限数据的州和联邦人口普查。我可以根据收入、教育、职业和姓名估算1915年至1940年间的代际流动性。在所有这些措施中，我记录了广泛的共识，即20世纪初爱荷华州的持久性很低。

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Economic Journal ECONOMICS-

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6.60

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