ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Intergenerational Mobility, Inequality, and Entrepreneurship along the Path of Development
A society where individuals can pursue their dreams, striving to become whatever they desire, excels both in efficiency and equity. However, throughout history, following parents' occupations was the norm, changing social class an exception. The question remains: what caused the increase in social mobility? My research program aims to answer these questions with three interconnected projects. Project I tackles the main obstacle to studying mobility: the availability of long-run individual-level panel data of parents and children. Digitizing an overlooked series of historical books, I will build a unique dataset of incomes and occupations of the universe of Swedish taxpayers since 1905,…
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