A New Infrastructure for Monitoring Social Mobility in the United States

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 657, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 63-82

  Grusky, David B ^a   Smeeding, Timothy M ^b   Snipp, C Matthew ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Economic mobility; Occupational mobility; Panel data; Social mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919459575     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716214549941     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Adams James TruslowThe epic of America. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Co; 1931:
2. Atkinson Anthony B.,Piketty Thomas,Saez Emmanuel.Top incomes in the long run of history.Journal of Economic Literature. 2011;49 (1): 3-71
3. Beller Emily.Bringing intergenerational social mobility research into the twenty-first century: Why mothers matter.American Sociological Review. 2009;74:507-28
4. Beller Emily,Hout Michael.Intergenerational social mobility: The United States in comparative perspective.The Future of Children. 2006;16 (2): 19-36
5. Björklund Anders,Eriksson Tor,Jäntti Markus,Raaum Oddbjørn,Österbacka Eva.Brother correlations in earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden compared to the United States.Journal of Population Economics. 2002;15:757-72
6. Blau Peter M.,Duncan Otis DudleyThe American occupational structure. New York, NY: Wiley; 1967:
7. Breen RichardSocial mobility in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2004:
8. Breen Richard.Educational expansion and social mobility in the 20th century.Social Forces. 2010;89 (2): 365-88
9. Candès Emmanuel J.,Plan Yaniv.Tight oracle bounds for low-rank matrix recovery from a minimal number of random measurements.IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 2009;57:2342-59
10. ChettyRajHendrenNathanielKlinePatrickSaezEmmanuel. 2014. Where is the land of opportunity? The geography of intergenerational mobility in the United States. Report of the Equality of Opportunity Project. Available from www.equality-of-opportunity.org.
11. Chetty Raj,Hendren Nathaniel,Kline Patrick,Saez Emmanuel,Turner NicholasCambridge, MA: ; 2014:
12. Clark GregoryThe son also rises: Surnames and the history of social mobility. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; 2014:
13. Duncan Greg J.,Kalil Ariel,Telle Kjetil,Ziol-Guest Kathleen M.Increasing inequality in parent incomes and children’s completed schooling: Correlation or causation?.Paper presented at the Income, Inequality, and Educational Success: New Evidence about Socioeconomic Status and Educational Outcomes conference; 2012Stanford University, Stanford, CA; 2012.
14. From parents to children: The intergenerational transmission of advantage. John ErmischJäntti MarkusSmeeding Timothy M., ed. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation; 2012:
15. Featherman David L.,Hauser Robert M.Opportunity and change. New York, NY: Academic Press; 1978:
16. Grusky David B.,Cumberworth Erin.A national protocol for measuring intergenerational mobility?.Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality Working Paper prepared for the National Academy of Science Workshop on Advancing Social Science Theory: The Importance of Common Metrics; 2010Stanford University, Stanford, CA; 2010.
17. Hauser Robert,Sheridan Jennifer,Warren John Robert.Socioeconomic achievements of siblings in the life course: New findings from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study.Research on Aging. 1999;21:338-78
18. Hout Michael.More universalism, less structural mobility: The American occupational structure in the 1980s.American Journal of Sociology. 1988;93 (6): 1358-1400
19. HoutMichael. 2015. A summary of what we know about social mobility. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (this volume).
20. Hout Michael,Janus AlexanderWhither opportunity? Rising inequality, schools, and children’s life chances. Duncan Greg J.Murnane Richard J., ed. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation; 2011:165-86.
21. JohnsonDavid S.MasseyCatherineO’HaraAmy. 2015. The opportunities and challenges of using administrative data linkages to evaluate mobility. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (this volume).
22. Jonsson Jan O.,Grusky David B.,Di Carlo Matthew,Pollak Reinhard,Brinton Mary C.Micro-class mobility: Social reproduction in four countries.American Journal of Sociology. 2009;114 (4): 977-1036
23. Kaushal Neeraj,Magnuson Katherine,Waldfogel JaneWhither opportunity? Rising inequality, schools, and children’s life chances. Duncan GregMurnane Richard, ed. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation; 2012:187-206.
24. Kornrich Sabino,Furstenberg Frank.Investing in children: Changes in parental spending on children, 1972 to 2007.Demography. 2013;50 (1): 1-23
25. KruegerAlan B.2012. The rise and consequences of inequality in the United States. Available from http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/krueger_cap_speech_final_remarks.pdf.
26. Lee Chul-In,Solon Gary.Trends in intergenerational income mobility.Review of Economics and Statistics. 2009;91 (4): 766-72
27. Mare Robert D.A multigenerational view of inequality.Demography. 2011;48:1-23
28. Mare Robert D.Multigenerational aspects of social stratification: Issues for future research.Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 2014;35:121-28
29. Mazumder Bhashkar.Sibling similarities and economic inequality in the US.Journal of Population Economics. 2008;21:685-701
30. MazumderBhashkar. 2015. Using occupation to measure intergenerational mobility. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (this volume).
31. Mitnik Pablo A.,Cumberworth Erin,Grusky David B.Stanford, CA: Stanford University; 2013:
32. Designing a new national survey on social mobility. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences; 2012:
33. ObamaBarack. 2014. The state of the union address. Available from http://www.whitehouse.gov.
34. PfefferFabian T.HertelFlorian R.Forthcoming. How has educational expansion shaped social mobility trends in the United States?Social Forces.
35. PrewittKenneth. 2015. Who is listening? When Scholars Think They Are Talking to Congress. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (this volume).
36. Reardon Sean F.Whither opportunity? Rising inequality, schools, and children’s life chances. Duncan Greg J.Murnane Richard J., ed. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation; 2011:91-116.
37. Rubin Donald B.,Little Roderick J. A.Statistical analysis with missing data. 2002. Statistical analysis with missing data. 2nd ed.New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons.New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons; 2002:
38. RyanPaul. 2014. Expanding opportunity in America. A Discussion Draft from the House Budget Committee. Available from http://budget.house.gov/uploadedfiles/expanding_opportunity_in_america.pdf.
39. Sharkey Patrick.The intergenerational transmission of context.American Journal of Sociology. 2010;113:931-69
40. Smeeding Timothy M.,Erikson Robert,Jäntti MarkusPersistence, privilege, and parenting: The comparative study of intergenerational mobility. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation; 2011:
41. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Smeeding Timothy M.Garfinkel IrvingMincy Ronald, ed. 2011:635.
42. Solon GaryHandbook of labor economics. Ashenfalter Orley C.Card David, ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier North Holland; 1999:
43. Song Xi,Mare Robert D.Educational mobility in multiple generations: A two-sex approach.Paper presented to Research Committee on Social Stratification of the ISA; 2013Trento; 2013.
44. TachLaura. 2015. Social mobility in era of family instability and complexity. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (this volume).
45. Torche Florencia.Is a college degree still the great equalizer? Intergenerational mobility across levels of schooling in the United States.American Journal of Sociology. 2011;117 (3): 763-807
46. WarrenJohn. 2015. Potential data sources for a new study of social mobility in the United States. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (this volume).
47. Warren John Robert,Hauser Robert,Sheridan Jennifer.Occupational stratification across the life course: Evidence from the Wisconsin longitudinal study.American Sociological Review. 2002;67:323-46
48. Zeng Zhen,Xie Yu.The effects of grandparents on children’s schooling: Evidence from rural China.Demography. 2014;51:599-618