Intergenerational Mobility: A Holistic Approach to Socioeconomic Origin

Easley and Baker will develop a holistic measure of socioeconomic origin based on five variables – income, wealth, neighborhood characteristics, occupation, and education – and analyze the extent to which socioeconomic origin affects economic mobility. They will examine how using this holistic measure differs from using one measure in predicting mobility. They will also examine how region, residential segregation, and neighborhood bias impact differences in mobility across race.