Intergenerational mobility captures the distance between the socioeconomic positions of parents versus their adult children. Researchers measure this distance in absolute and…
Individuals’ life outcomes are rooted in their parents’ and grandparents’ experiences, which, in turn, are rooted in the places where they grew up. In the U.S., Black (grand)…
Studies about intergenerational income mobility are increasingly popular across the social sciences. These studies require individuals’ own incomes and their parents’ incomes to…
Demographers and other social scientists often study effect heterogeneity (defined here as differences in outcome–predictor associations across groups defined by the values of a…
Causal analyses typically focus on average treatment effects. Yet for substantive research on topics like inequality, interest extends to treatments’ distributional consequences.…
