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Intergenerational Mobility in Measures of Wellbeing: Consumption, Health and Life Satisfaction

Year: 2025

Type: report

Abstract: Studies of intergenerational mobility have begun to expand outside of the traditional outcomes such as income, education and occupation, into using alternative measures of wellbeing.In this chapter we survey the evidence on studies of these alternative measures with a focus on health, consumption and life satisfaction.We also incorporate lessons from the income mobility literature that may be relevant for how we think about these alternative measures both conceptually and empirically.We highlight a few approaches that researchers can consider to incorporate alternative measures and we conclude that a widening of our conception of intergenerational mobility to incorporate measures of wellbeing may identify shortfalls in some of our current approaches.

Source: National Bureau of Economic Research

DOI: 10.3386/w34407

Authors: Jonathan Davis, Nathan Deutscher, Bhashkar Mazumder

Institutions: University of Oregon, University of Technology Sydney, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Language: English

Topic: Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funders: Australian Government, Department of Social Services, Australian Government, Australian Research Council