Organizers:
Bhash Mazumder, Steven Durlauf and Scott Duke Kominers
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“The Role of Parental Income over the Life Cycle: A Comparison of Sweden and the UK”
“Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, and the Family”
“Racial Peer Effects in the Classroom”
“Rich Dad, Smart Dad: Decomposing the Intergenerational Transmission of Income”
“Nature and Nurture in the Transmission of Economic Status”
“What is the True Rate of Social Mobility? Evidence from the Information Content of Surnames”
“British, American, and British-American Social Mobility: Intergenerational Occupational Change Among Migrants and Non-Migrants in the Late 19th Century”
“Mismatch, Rematch, and Investment”
“Black-White Differences in Intergenerational Mobility in the U.S.”
“The Effects of Residential Segregation during Childhood on Life Chances: Causal Evidence Using Historical Railroad Track Configurations”
“Gender, Geography and Generations: Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Post-reform India”
“The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity”