Pablo A Mitnik
Biographic Data
| ID | 273304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pablo A Mitnik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pablo A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitnik |
| SIGNATURE | MITNIK P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2988-7456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes
Although there is an extensive methodological literature on the measurement of intergenerational income mobility, there has been limited research on the conceptual interpretation of mobility measures and the methodological implications of those interpretations. In this article, I focus on the three measures of mobility most frequently used in the literature-the intergenerational elasticity (IGE), the intergenerational correlation (IGC), and the r…
A Very Uneven Playing Field
The authors present results from a new data set that has been assembled from tax and other administrative sources to provide evidence on economic mobility and persistence in the United States. This data set allows the authors to take on the methodological problems that have complicated previous efforts to estimate intergenerational income elasticities. The resulting estimates of intergenerational persistence are as high as all but the highest of …
Estimating the intergenerational elasticity of expected income with short-run income measures
Measuring Social Class with Changing Occupational Classifications
Periodic changes in occupational classifications make it difficult to obtain consistent measures of social class over time, potentially jeopardizing research on class-based trends. The severity of this problem depends, in part, on the measurement strategies used to address those changes. The authors propose that when a sample has been coded partly with one occupational classification and partly with another, Krippendorff’s index α be used to iden…
Intergenerational Income Elasticities, Instrumental Variable Estimation, and Bracketing Strategies
The fact that the intergenerational income elasticity (IGE)—the workhorse measure of economic mobility—is defined in terms of the geometric mean of children’s income generates serious methodological problems. This has led to a call to replace it with the IGE of the expectation, which requires developing the methodological knowledge necessary to estimate the latter with short-run measures of income. This article contributes to this aim. The author…
The Intergenerational Elasticity of What? The Case for Redefining the Workhorse Measure of Economic Mobility
The intergenerational elasticity (IGE) has been assumed to refer to the expectation of children’s income when in fact it pertains to the geometric mean of children’s income. We show that mobility analyses based on the conventional IGE have been widely misinterpreted, are subject to selection bias, and cannot disentangle the different channels for transmitting economic status across generations. The solution to these problems—estimating the IGE of…
A Forced Critique of the Intergenerational Elasticity of the Conditional Expectation
The Intergenerational Transmission of Family-Income Advantages in the United States
Estimates of economic persistence and mobility in the United States, as measured by the intergenerational elasticity (IGE), cover a very wide range. Nevertheless, careful analyses of the evidence suggested until recently that as much as half, and possibly more, of economic advantages are passed on from parents to children. This 'dominant hypothesis' was seriously challenged by the first-ever study of family-income mobility based on tax data (Chet…
Social Mobility in a High-Inequality Regime
Are opportunities to get ahead growing more unequal? Using data from the General Social Survey (GSS), it is possible to provide evidence on this question, evidence that is suggestive but must be carefully interpreted because the samples are relatively small. The GSS data reveal an increase in class reproduction among young and middle-age adults that is driven by the growing advantage of the professional-managerial class relative to all other clas…
Gianfranco Poggi
Social Mobility in a High-Inequality Regime
Are opportunities to get ahead growing more unequal? Using data from the General Social Survey (GSS), it is possible to provide evidence on this question, evidence that is suggestive but must be carefully interpreted because the samples are relatively small. The GSS data reveal an increase in class reproduction among young and middle-age adults that is driven by the growing advantage of the professional-managerial class relative to all other clas…
The Intergenerational Elasticity of What? The Case for Redefining the Workhorse Measure of Economic Mobility
The intergenerational elasticity (IGE) has been assumed to refer to the expectation of children’s income when in fact it pertains to the geometric mean of children’s income. We show that mobility analyses based on the conventional IGE have been widely misinterpreted, are subject to selection bias, and cannot disentangle the different channels for transmitting economic status across generations. The solution to these problems—estimating the IGE of…
The Intergenerational Transmission of Family-Income Advantages in the United States
Estimates of economic persistence and mobility in the United States, as measured by the intergenerational elasticity (IGE), cover a very wide range. Nevertheless, careful analyses of the evidence suggested until recently that as much as half, and possibly more, of economic advantages are passed on from parents to children. This 'dominant hypothesis' was seriously challenged by the first-ever study of family-income mobility based on tax data (Chet…
Intergenerational Income Elasticities, Instrumental Variable Estimation, and Bracketing Strategies
The fact that the intergenerational income elasticity (IGE)—the workhorse measure of economic mobility—is defined in terms of the geometric mean of children’s income generates serious methodological problems. This has led to a call to replace it with the IGE of the expectation, which requires developing the methodological knowledge necessary to estimate the latter with short-run measures of income. This article contributes to this aim. The author…
A Very Uneven Playing Field
The authors present results from a new data set that has been assembled from tax and other administrative sources to provide evidence on economic mobility and persistence in the United States. This data set allows the authors to take on the methodological problems that have complicated previous efforts to estimate intergenerational income elasticities. The resulting estimates of intergenerational persistence are as high as all but the highest of …
Measuring Social Class with Changing Occupational Classifications
Periodic changes in occupational classifications make it difficult to obtain consistent measures of social class over time, potentially jeopardizing research on class-based trends. The severity of this problem depends, in part, on the measurement strategies used to address those changes. The authors propose that when a sample has been coded partly with one occupational classification and partly with another, Krippendorff’s index α be used to iden…
A Forced Critique of the Intergenerational Elasticity of the Conditional Expectation
Gianfranco Poggi
Social Mobility in a High-Inequality Regime
Are opportunities to get ahead growing more unequal? Using data from the General Social Survey (GSS), it is possible to provide evidence on this question, evidence that is suggestive but must be carefully interpreted because the samples are relatively small. The GSS data reveal an increase in class reproduction among young and middle-age adults that is driven by the growing advantage of the professional-managerial class relative to all other clas…
The Intergenerational Transmission of Family-Income Advantages in the United States
Estimates of economic persistence and mobility in the United States, as measured by the intergenerational elasticity (IGE), cover a very wide range. Nevertheless, careful analyses of the evidence suggested until recently that as much as half, and possibly more, of economic advantages are passed on from parents to children. This 'dominant hypothesis' was seriously challenged by the first-ever study of family-income mobility based on tax data (Chet…
Intergenerational Income Elasticities, Instrumental Variable Estimation, and Bracketing Strategies
The fact that the intergenerational income elasticity (IGE)—the workhorse measure of economic mobility—is defined in terms of the geometric mean of children’s income generates serious methodological problems. This has led to a call to replace it with the IGE of the expectation, which requires developing the methodological knowledge necessary to estimate the latter with short-run measures of income. This article contributes to this aim. The author…
The Intergenerational Elasticity of What? The Case for Redefining the Workhorse Measure of Economic Mobility
The intergenerational elasticity (IGE) has been assumed to refer to the expectation of children’s income when in fact it pertains to the geometric mean of children’s income. We show that mobility analyses based on the conventional IGE have been widely misinterpreted, are subject to selection bias, and cannot disentangle the different channels for transmitting economic status across generations. The solution to these problems—estimating the IGE of…
A Forced Critique of the Intergenerational Elasticity of the Conditional Expectation
Measuring Social Class with Changing Occupational Classifications
Periodic changes in occupational classifications make it difficult to obtain consistent measures of social class over time, potentially jeopardizing research on class-based trends. The severity of this problem depends, in part, on the measurement strategies used to address those changes. The authors propose that when a sample has been coded partly with one occupational classification and partly with another, Krippendorff’s index α be used to iden…
Estimating the intergenerational elasticity of expected income with short-run income measures
A Very Uneven Playing Field
The authors present results from a new data set that has been assembled from tax and other administrative sources to provide evidence on economic mobility and persistence in the United States. This data set allows the authors to take on the methodological problems that have complicated previous efforts to estimate intergenerational income elasticities. The resulting estimates of intergenerational persistence are as high as all but the highest of …
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes
Although there is an extensive methodological literature on the measurement of intergenerational income mobility, there has been limited research on the conceptual interpretation of mobility measures and the methodological implications of those interpretations. In this article, I focus on the three measures of mobility most frequently used in the literature-the intergenerational elasticity (IGE), the intergenerational correlation (IGC), and the r…
Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Econometrics (7 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Statistics (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Economic inequality (3 works)