Intergenerational Income Mobility. Intergenerational income mobility is the extent to which children move up (or down) in the income distribution relative to their parents. Many factors can affect children’s income mobility. These include geographic factors—like the safety of their neighborhoods or the quality of their schools—their parents’ decisions, and their own characteristics. In this report, we examine intergenerational income mobility in California using estimates published by researchers Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, and their coauthors.
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