Fig. 5.

Upward mobility by year of birth: persons with nonfarm origins, 25–69 y old, living in the United States currently and at the time they were in high school, 1994–2016. Note: Mobility is defined relative to the combined parents’ SEI measure, the weighted average of father’s and mother’s SEI. See text for details. Observed data were smoothed by locally estimated regression (bandwidth = 0.5). Source: Author’s calculations from the GSSs, 1994–2016 (9).