How did rising credit limits and falling bankruptcy costs from the 1970s to 2000s the so-called democratization of credit affect intergenerational mobility? We answer this question in two steps. Fir
Intergenerational income mobility — the ability of children to rise above their parents’ economic status — is a key concern in debates over inequality and opportunity. Most research has focused on str
This paper studies intergenerational mobilitythe transmission of family influence. We develop and estimate measures of lifetime resources motivated by economic theory that account for differences in l
The possibility of upward social mobility from lower into higher social classes between parent and child generations is investigated. Topics: place or city of survey, time of survey, occupation of hu
The dataset contains modified Living Standards Measurment Survey (LSMS) data from eight African countries: Cote D' Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Malawi, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria and Uganda that is used for
