Intergenerational mobility : measurement and the role of borrowing constraints and inherited tastes

Author

Caballé, Jordi

Publication date

2016

Abstract

In this paper, I present some popular measures of mobility in economic outcomes within a family across generations. I also discuss two of the most important factors preventing intergenerational mobility: existence of financially constrained individuals and transmission of tastes from parents to children. Finally, I show how these two factors could give raise to dramatic reversals of fortune affecting successive generations of the same dynasty. I will cast the results of the different models I use in terms of the previous measures of intergenerational mobility

Document Type

Article

Language

English

Subjects and keywords

Intergenerational mobility; Inherited tastes; Borrowing constraints

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