Estimating Intergenerational Mobility with Grouped Data: A Critique of Clark's "The Son Also Rises"

Autor/inn/en	Torche, Florencia; Corvalan, Alejandro
Titel	Estimating Intergenerational Mobility with Grouped Data: A Critique of Clark's "The Son Also Rises"
Quelle	In: Sociological Methods & Research, 47 (2018) 4, S.787-811 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0049-1241
DOI	10.1177/0049124116661579
Schlagwörter	Social Mobility; Computation; Generational Differences; Persistence; Error of Measurement; Bias; Race; Ethnicity; Longitudinal Studies; National Surveys; National Longitudinal Survey of Youth + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Mobilität; Ausdauer; Messfehler; Rasse; Abstammung; Ethnizität; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung
Abstract	This article distinguishes three measures of intergenerational economic mobility that emerge when the population is divided into groups: overall individual mobility, within-group mobility, and between-group mobility. We clarify their properties and the relationship between them. We then evaluate Clark's use of surname between-group persistence as a preferred measure of intergenerational mobility in the book "The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility." We show that aggregate surname-level intergenerational persistence cannot be compared with individual persistence because group-level income averages captures diverse individual-level and group-level factors impossible to disentangle without additional identifying information. Furthermore, measures of group persistence do not address the problem of measurement error leading to attenuation bias, which is Clark's rationale to study surname mobility. An empirical example partitioning the population into groups based on racial/ethnic origins and a simulation clarify the relationship between these different measures of mobility. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01