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  • Economics
  • Public Health

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  • Intergenerational mobility examines how socioeconomic status changes across generations.
  • Previous research suggests income mobility may be geographically influenced.
  • The generalization of mobility across various human and health capital domains remains underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether intergenerational mobility is a generalized phenomenon or specific to particular domains.
  • To assess if mobility in one domain (e.g., income) correlates with mobility in other domains (education, health, behavior, crime).
  • To examine place-based intergenerational mobility across multiple domains.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the Add Health dataset, linking parent and child outcomes.
  • Analyzed individual-level data to assess generalized mobility across ten domains.
  • Employed school-based sampling and parent-child links for place-based mobility analysis.

Main Results:

  • Found no evidence supporting generalized intergenerational mobility at the individual level.
  • Families mobile in one domain were not consistently mobile in others.
  • Limited evidence of generalized place-based mobility was observed, with near-zero correlations across most domains.

Conclusions:

  • Intergenerational mobility appears to be domain-specific rather than generalized.
  • Place-based mobility also showed limited generalization across various human and health capital domains.
  • Findings challenge the notion of a single, overarching mobility process across different life aspects.