Thursday, April 17 / 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM   •   Napoleon B2

Session 37:
Social Mobility: Across and Within Generations

Chair: Richard Breen, Yale University
Discussant: Michael Murphy, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Discussant: Hannah Brueckner, Yale University

  1. Unobserved Heterogeneity, Demographic Mechanisms, and the Intergenerational Effects of Increasing Women’s Schooling • Vida Maralani, University of Pennsylvania ; Robert D. Mare, University of California, Los Angeles

  2. Understanding the Relationship between Parental Income and Outcomes in Middle Childhood • Paul Gregg, University of Bristol ; Carol Propper, University of Bristol ; Elizabeth Washbrook, Columbia University

  3. Educational Homogamy of Married and Cohabiting Couples: Do Marriage and Cohabitation Become More Similar as Cohabitation Becomes More Common? • Dana Hamplova, McGill University ; Celine Le Bourdais, McGill University

  4. Occupational Change and Income Mobility from 1950-2006 • Daniel A Long, Wesleyan University ; Aaron Truchil, Wesleyan University

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