Pablo A. Mitnik 📨


Welcome. You can find here some of my papers as well as associated software and ancillary files.

PAPERS

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.

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2022 Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics Discussion Paper, including Appendices

2018 Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality Working Paper and Appendices

 

Mitnik, Pablo. 2024. “Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes.” Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics Discussion Paper 2024-1, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

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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.

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Paper (subscription required)

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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.

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Published Paper

Book

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.]

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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.

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Mitnik, Pablo and David Grusky. 2020. “Rejoinder: A Forced Critique of the Intergenerational Elasticity of the Conditional Expectation.” Sociological Methodology 50(1): 112-130.

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Online Appendices

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.

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Online Appendices

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.

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Online Appendices

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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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Stata package igetwos.

 

Mitnik, Pablo. 2017. Estimators of the Intergenerational Elasticity of Expected Income: A Tutorial.” Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality Working Paper. Updated September 2018.

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Ancillary files

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.

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Mitnik, Pablo. 2017. “"Person-Weighted" versus "Dollar-Weighted": A Flawed Characterization of Two Intergenerational Income Elasticities.” Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality Working Paper.

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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.

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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.

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Mitnik, Pablo and David Grusky. 2015. Economic Mobility in the United States. New York: The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Mitnik, Pablo. 2013. “New Properties of the Kumaraswamy Distribution,” Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods 42(5):741-755.

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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.

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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.

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Supplementary table

 

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.

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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.

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Mitnik, Pablo. 2007. Cities and Jobs: Local Strategies for Improving Job Quality and Access. Madison: Center on Wisconsin Strategy, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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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.

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CONTACT INFORMATION

Pablo A. Mitnik                                                                                              

Assistant Research Scientist

University of Michigan

Center for Inequality Dynamics                                    

ISR Building

426 Thompson St., Room 2030

Ann Arbor, MI 48109

+1 734 647 2666

pmitnik@umich.edu