Jácome, Elisa. <br/><br/>
Mobility for All:  Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the 20th Century / 
Elisa Jácome, Ilyana Kuziemko, Suresh Naidu. 
 - Cambridge, Mass.  National Bureau of Economic Research  2021. 
 - 1 online resource:  illustrations (black and white); 
 - NBER working paper series  no. w29289 .
 - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)  no. w29289. .
<br/><br/> September 2021. 
<br/><br/> We present the first estimates of long-run trends in intergenerational relative mobility for samples that are representative of the full U.S.-born population.  Harmonizing all surveys that ask about father's occupation and own family income, we develop a mobility measure that allows for the inclusion of non-whites and women for the 1910s-1970s birth cohorts.  We show a robust increase in mobility between the 1910s and 1940s cohorts, about half of which is driven by absolute convergence in racial income gaps. We also find that excluding Black Americans, particularly Black women, considerably overstates mobility throughout the 20th century. 
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