Summary of the Paper
‘The Great Escape: Intergenerational Mobility in the US since 1994’ by Nathaniel G. Hilger presents the authors work on how he develops a new method to estimate intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment on US census data spanning 1940-2000. Using the new method, the author measures directly for children still living with parents at ages 26-29 and indirectly for other children using imputation procedure that is validated in multiple datasets thereby spanning the full sample period (Hilger, 1). The method is dubbed ‘new’ because it is the first to estimate educational IM on birth cohorts spanning 1911-1971 in a ...
