Fortunate Sons: New Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States Using Social Security Earnings Data
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...30 This estimate for Solon is the average of the results found in table 2, column 2, of Solon (1992)....
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...The average age of the children is 31, which is similar to the averages 29.6 reported by Solon (1992) and 33.8 reported by Zimmerman (1992)....
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...14 See footnote 16 in Solon (1992)....
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...Couch and Lillard (1998) argue that the results of Solon (1992) and Zimmerman (1992) are sensitive to the inclusion of years of zero earnings....
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...Inasmuch as it is possible that fathers’ education has an independent, and presumably positive, effect on sons’ earnings, the IV estimate may not be consistent, but it arguably serves as an upper bound (Solon, 1992)....
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