Friday, October 27
8:00 am
Breakfast
8:30 am

Growing Class Gaps, Shrinking Race Gaps: Economic and Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility

Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Will S. Dobbie, Harvard University and NBER
Benjamin Goldman, Cornell University
Crystal Yang, Harvard University and NBER
Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau

Discussant:
Elizabeth Ananat, Columbia University and NBER
9:20 am

The Measurement of Income Growth, Mobility, and Volatility in the U.S. by Race-ethnicity and Gender

Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau
Charles A. Bee, U.S. Census Bureau
Amanda Eng, U.S. Census Bureau
Kendall A. Houghton, U.S. Census Bureau
Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej, U.S. Census Bureau
Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau
Jonathan L. Rothbaum, U.S. Census Bureau
John L. Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau

Discussant:
Abigail K. Wozniak, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
10:10 am
Break
10:40 am

Marriage and the Intergenerational Mobility of Women: Evidence from Marriage Certificates 1850-1920

Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis and NBER
Gregory Niemesh, Miami University and NBER
Myera Rashid, Northwestern University
Jacqueline Craig, Miami University of Ohio

Discussant:
Patricia Cortés, Boston University and NBER
11:30 am

Women and the Econometrics of Family Trees (slides)

José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez, Yale University
Joseph P. Ferrie, Northwestern University and NBER
Christopher Vickers, Auburn University

Discussant:
Marie Connolly, Université du Québec à Montréal
12:20 pm
Lunch
1:20 pm
Keynote Address by Sendhil Mullainathan, University of Chicago
2:05 pm

Quantifying the Role of Firms in Intergenerational Mobility

Cauê Dobbin, Georgetown University
Tom Zohar, CEMFI

Discussant:
Matthew Staiger, Opportunity Insights
2:55 pm
Break
3:25 pm

A Chip Off The Old Block? Genetics and Economic Mobility

Leandro Carvalho, University of Southern California
Silvia H. Barcellos, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Titus J. Galama, University of Southern California
Marina Palma, FGV-Rio
Sjoerd van Alten, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Discussant:
Dalton Conley, Princeton University and NBER
4:15 pm
Adjourn