The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility

David Card; Ciprian Domnisoru; Lowell Taylor

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility

David Card, Ciprian Domnisoru, Lowell Taylor

Department of Economics

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School quality affects upward mobility in educational attainment. This conclusion comes from an analysis of families with coresident teenage children in the 1940 census. We study parents in the bottom quartile of the education distribution and define “upward mobility” as a generational move up the educational ladder to the top three quartiles of the child’s cohort. At the state level, upward mobility is strongly tied to teacher wages. This relationship holds when we narrow our focus to families on adjacent sides of state borders in the South, where state minimum salary laws created sharp teacher-wage differences between otherwise similar counties.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	S39-S95
Journal	Journal of Labor Economics
Volume	40
Issue number	S1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/718417
Publication status	Published - Apr 2022
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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