Affiliation:
1. Terence E. Adderley Jr. Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University and Research Associate of the NBER (email: )
2. Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Tennessee, Research Fellow at Stellenbosch University and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and Research Associate of the NBER (email: ).
Abstract
We document the intergenerational mobility of Black and White American men from 1880 through 2000 by building new historical datasets for the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and combining them with modern data to cover the middle and late twentieth century. We find large disparities in mobility, with White children having far better chances of escaping the bottom of the distribution than Black children in every generation. This mobility gap was more important in proximately determining each generation's racial gap than was the initial gap in parents' economic status. (JEL D31, J15, J62, N31, N32)
Publisher
American Economic Association
Subject
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
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