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Family Trees and Falling Apples: Historical Intergenerational Mobility Estimates for Women and Men

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  • Kasey Buckles
  • Joseph Price
  • Zachary Ward
  • Haley E.B. Wilbert

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Efforts to document long-term trends in socioeconomic mobility in the US have been hindered by the lack of large, representative datasets linking parents to adult children, a challenge especially acute for women due to surname changes. We use a new dataset, the Census Tree, which incorporates genealogy data to link tens of millions of fathers to their sons and daughters in historical US censuses. We find that relative mobility was remarkably similar across sons and daughters in the 1835 to 1915 birth cohorts. Additionally, assortative mating was much stronger than previously estimated, as daughters married husbands with very similar backgrounds.

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  • Kasey Buckles & Joseph Price & Zachary Ward & Haley E.B. Wilbert, 2023. "Family Trees and Falling Apples: Historical Intergenerational Mobility Estimates for Women and Men," NBER Working Papers 31918, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:31918
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    1. Benjamin Goldman & Jamie Gracie & Sonya R. Porter, 2024. "Who Marries Whom? The Role of Segregation by Race and Class," Working Papers 24-30, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    2. Martha J. Bailey & Peter Z. Lin, 2024. "Marital Matching and Women’s Intergenerational Mobility in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century US," NBER Chapters, in: The Economic History of American Inequality: New Evidence and Perspectives, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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    • I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
    • J0 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General
    • N0 - Economic History - - General
    • N01 - Economic History - - General - - - Development of the Discipline: Historiographical; Sources and Methods

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