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Changing Roles Of Ability And Education In U.S. Intergenerational Mobility
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Economic Inquiry
Volume
55
Issue
1
First Page
187
Last Page
201
Abstract
Using data on young adults from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we investigate the changing roles of ability and education in the transmission of economic status across generations. We find that ability plays a substantially diminished role for the most recent cohort whereas education plays a much larger role. The first finding results primarily from a smaller effect of children's ability on status, the second from an increased correlation between parental status and educational attainment. A replication of the analysis by gender reveals that the changes in the role of ability are largely driven by men whereas the changes in education's role are largely driven by women. (JEL J62, I24).
Department
Department of Economics
Original Publication Date
1-1-2017
DOI of published version
10.1111/ecin.12362
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Richey, Jeremiah and Rosburg, Alicia, "Changing Roles Of Ability And Education In U.S. Intergenerational Mobility" (2017). Faculty Publications. 982.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/982