Welcome. Here you can
find some of my papers as well as associated software and ancillary files.
2024 Stone
Center for Inequality Dynamics Discussion
Paper.
Mitnik, Pablo, Victoria Bryant, and
David Grusky. 2024. “A Very Uneven Playing Field: Economic Mobility in the
United States.” American Journal of
Sociology 129(4): 1216–1276.
2022 Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics Discussion Paper, including Appendices
2018 Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality Working Paper and Appendices
Mitnik, Pablo. 2023. “Estimating the Intergenerational Elasticity of
Expected Income with Short-Run Income Measures: A Generalized
Error-in-Variables Model.” Empirical Economics 65: 2779–2803.
Paper (subscription
required)
Paper (read-only version,
no subscription required)
2019 Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality Working Paper and Appendix.
2017 Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality Working Paper including Appendix.
Mitnik, Pablo, Anne-Line Helsø and
Victoria Bryant. 2022. “Inequality of Opportunity for Income in Denmark and the
United States: A Comparison Based on Administrative Data.” In Measuring
Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth, edited by Raj Chetty, John
Friedman, Janet Gornick, Barry Johnson, and Arthur Kennickell. NBER Book Series
Studies in Income and Wealth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2020 National Bureau of Economic Analysis Working Paper
Mitnik, Pablo and Erin Cumberworth.
2021. “Measuring Social Class with Changing Occupational Classifications:
Reliability, Competing Measurement Strategies, and the 1970-1980 U.S.
Classification Divide.” Sociological
Methods and Research 50 (1):
265-309. [First published online
in June 2018.]
Stata
package kanom. Alternatively, do “ssc install kanom” from within
Stata
2016 Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality Working Paper
Grusky, David, Ann Carpenter, Erin
Graves, Anna Kallschmidt, Pablo Mitnik, Bethany Nichols, and C. Matthew Snipp.
2021. The Rise of the Noxious Contract.
Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Mitnik, Pablo and David Grusky. 2020.
“Rejoinder: A Forced Critique of the Intergenerational Elasticity of the
Conditional Expectation.” Sociological Methodology 50(1): 112-130.
Comment by Ian Lundberg and Brandon Stewart motivating the
rejoinder
Mitnik, Pablo. 2020. “Intergenerational Income Elasticities,
Instrumental Variable Estimation, and Bracketing Strategies.” Sociological Methodology 50(1):
1-46.
Stata packages igesetci, igeset,
and igeintb. Alternatively, do “ssc install
program_name” from within Stata to install any of the programs. In addition, by
doing “ssc get program_name,” the data file for running the examples in the
program’s help file gets copied to Stata’s current directory.
2019 Stanford Center
on Poverty and Inequality Working
Paper
and Appendices.
2017 Stanford Center
on Poverty and Inequality Working
Paper, including Appendices.
Mitnik,
Pablo and David Grusky. 2020. “The Intergenerational Elasticity of What? The
Case for Redefining the Workhorse Measure of Economic Mobility.” Sociological Methodology 50(1): 47-95.
2017 Stanford Center
on Poverty and Inequality Working
Paper, including Appendices. (Equations [19] and [20] were corrected for
typos in March 2019.)
Mitnik,
Pablo, Victoria Bryant, and Michael Weber. 2019. “The Intergenerational
Transmission of Family-Income Advantages in the United States.” Sociological Science 6(15): 380-415.
2018 Stanford Center
on Poverty and Inequality Working
Paper and Appendices.
Mitnik,
Pablo. 2018. “Cross-National and Temporal Variation in the Intergenerational
Elasticity of Expected Income: A Theoretical Analysis.” Stanford Center on
Poverty and Inequality Working Paper.
Paper
(Discussion around Equation [11] was corrected for typos in August 2019.)
Mitnik,
Pablo. 2018. “New Mobility Policies in the Post-Fordist Economy: Low-Wage Work,
Intragenerational Mobility and Distributive Justice.”
Paper (update in
progress, available soon)
Mitnik,
Pablo. 2018. “Two-Sample Estimation of the Intergenerational Elasticity of
Expected Income: The IGETWOS Command.” Stanford Center on Poverty and
Inequality Working Paper.
Mitnik,
Pablo. 2017. “Estimators of the Intergenerational Elasticity of Expected
Income: A Tutorial.” Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality Working
Paper. Updated September 2018.
Note: This tutorial’s
approach for carrying out statistical inference when the IGE of the expectation
is set estimated (rather than point estimated) in the one-sample context, and
the associated software, have been superseded by the approach and software
introduced in the following paper (which is available above):
Mitnik, Pablo. 2020. “Intergenerational Income Elasticities,
Instrumental Variable Estimation, and Bracketing Strategies.” Sociological
Methodology 50(1): 1-46.
The tutorial’s approaches for point estimation in
the one-sample context and for estimation in the two-sample context are up to
date.
Mitnik,
Pablo. 2017. “Two-Sample
Estimation of the Intergenerational Elasticity of Expected Income.” Stanford
Center on Poverty and Inequality Working Paper.
Mitnik, Pablo. 2017. “"Person-Weighted" versus "Dollar-Weighted":
A Flawed Characterization of Two Intergenerational Income Elasticities.” Stanford
Center on Poverty and Inequality Working Paper.
Mitnik, Pablo, Erin Cumberworth and
David Grusky. 2016. “Social Mobility in a High Inequality Regime,” Annals of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science 663(1):140-184.
2013 Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality Working
Paper.
Mitnik,
Pablo, Victoria Bryant, Michael Weber, and David Grusky. 2015. New Estimates of Intergenerational Economic
Mobility Using Administrative Data. Statistics of Income Division, Internal
Revenue Service.
Mitnik,
Pablo and David Grusky. 2015. Economic
Mobility in the United States. New York: The Pew Charitable Trusts and the
Russell Sage Foundation.
Mitnik,
Pablo. 2013. “New Properties of the Kumaraswamy Distribution,” Communications in Statistics – Theory and
Methods 42(5):741-755.
Mitnik,
Pablo and Sunyoung Baek. 2013. “The Kumaraswamy Distribution: Median-Dispersion
Re-Parameterizations for Regression Modeling and Simulation-Based Estimation,” Statistical Papers 54(1):177-192.
Mitnik,
Pablo and Jessica Halpern-Finnerty. 2010. “Immigration and Local Governments:
Inclusionary Local Policies in the Era of State Rescaling.” In Taking
Local Control: Immigration Policy Activism in the U.S. Cities and States,
edited by Monica Varsanyi. Stanford: Stanford
University Press.
Mitnik, Pablo. 2009.
“Low-Wage Work in the United States: Basic Facts, Welfare Consequences and
Intragenerational Upward Mobility,” Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty
and Inequality Working Paper.
Mitnik,
Pablo, Jessica Halpern-Finnerty and Mathew Vidal. 2008. Cities and Immigration: Local Policies for Immigrant-Friendly Cities.
Madison: Center on Wisconsin Strategy, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mitnik,
Pablo. 2007. Cities and Jobs: Local
Strategies for Improving Job Quality and Access. Madison: Center on
Wisconsin Strategy, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mitnik,
Pablo and Matthew Zeidenberg. 2007. From
Bad to Good Jobs? An Analysis of the Prospects for Career Ladders in the
Service Industries. Madison: Center on Wisconsin Strategy, University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Pablo A. Mitnik
Center for Inequality Dynamics
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