Data and Code for: African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility Since 1880 -- Collins and Wanamaker (2021)

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) William J. Collins, Vanderbilt University; Marianne H. Wanamaker, University of Tennessee

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Project Citation:

Collins, William J., and Wanamaker, Marianne H. Data and Code for: African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility Since 1880 -- Collins and Wanamaker (2021). Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-06-15. https://doi.org/10.3886/E128442V1

Project Description

Summary:

Code required to replicate results in " African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility Since 1880", published in American Economic Journal: Applied.

Abstract: We document the intergenerational mobility of black and white American men from 1880 through 2000 by building new historical datasets and combining them with modern data to cover the middle and late twentieth century. We find large disparities, with white children having far better chances of escaping the bottom of the income distribution than black children in every generation. This mobility gap was more important in proximately determining each generation’s racial income gap than was the gap in parents’ economic status. Evidence suggests that human capital disparities, conditional on parents’ status, underpinned a substantial part of the mobility gap. [99 words]

Funding Sources: National Science Foundation (SES 1156085 and 1156057)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: economic history; inequality; intergenerational mobility

JEL Classification:
N30 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: General, International, or Comparative

Geographic Coverage: United Sates

Time Period(s): 1/1/1880 – 1/1/2000

Data Type(s): program source code

Methodology

Data Source:

Underlying data sources (none posted here):

Occupational Change in a Generation (ICPSR study 6162)

National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979

100% count files of the U.S. Census of Population available from Ancestry.com, via IPUMS (1900, 1910, and 1930 versions)

100% count file of the U.S. Census of Population available from IPUMS-International (1880)

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