Lindsey Macmillan

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings, and explore the decline in mobility in the UK between the 1958 NCDS cohort and the 1970 cohort.

TL;DR: This paper found that educational attainment is an important driver of the relationship between intergenerational mobility and income inequality, and that unequal access to financial resources plays a central role in the inter-generational transmission of advantage.

TL;DR: This article explored the relationship between family background and early access to top occupations and found that privately educated graduates are a third more likely to enter into high status occupations than state educated graduates from similarly affluent families and neighbourhoods, largely due to differences in educational attainment and university selection.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors derive a formal framework which relates mobility as measured by family income or earnings to mobility as defined by social class and test several alternative hypotheses to explain the difference between the trends.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw together established and new information about the contribution of higher education to social mobility using a life-course approach, considering differences by family background in terms of university attendance and achievement, as well as occupation and earnings following graduation.