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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sociol Methodol. 2020 Dec 8;51(1):1–43. doi: 10.1177/0081175020973054

Table 8.

A Summary of Intergenerational Social Mobility Research

Models Composition Mobility Demography Methods Exemplary Prior Research
Classic Mobility Models One-Sex Two-Generation No Markov chain models Prais (1955)
Mobility tables and path analysis Blau and Duncan (1967); Featherman and Hauser (1978)
OLS models Hout (2018)
Loglinear models DiPrete (1990); Erikson and Goldthorpe (1992); Grusky and Hauser (1984); Hout (1988); Jonsson et al. (2009); Torche (2011); Yamaguchi (1987); Xie (1992)
Log-log regression Behrman and Taubman (1985); Landersø and Heckman (2017); Mazumder (2005); Mitnik and Grusky (2017); Solon (1992)
One-Sex Multiple-Generation No Loglinear models Chan and Boliver (2013)
Survival analysis Zeng and Xie (2014)
Rank-rank regression Pfeffer and Killewald (2017)
Log-log regression Long and Ferrie (2018); Solon (2014, 2018);
Two-Sex Two-Generation No Loglinear models Beller (2009)
Rank-rank regression Chetty et al. (2014)
Log-log regression Lee and Solon (2009)
Two-Sex Multiple-Generation No Path analysis Warren and Hauser (1997)
Variance component model Jæger (2012)
Joint Demography-Mobility Models One-Sex Two-Generation Yes Markov chain models Matras (1961); Preston (1974); Mare (1997) Mare and Maralani (2006); Maralani (2013)
One-Sex Multiple-Generation Yes Markov chain models Mare and Song (2014)
Two-Sex Two-Generation Yes Markov chain models Preston and Campbell (1993)
Two-Sex Multiple-Generation Yes Markov chain models Song and Mare (2017)