Declines in absolute mobility between ten-year cohorts

Percentage-point difference in the share of children earning more than their parents in each cohort compared to cohort born one decade prior, by parental income percentile

Source: Source: Authors' calculations using data from Chetty et al., "The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940." Science 356(6336): 398-406, 2017. Data downloaded from www.equality-of-opportunity.org/data/ Get the data