Pablo A. Mitnik 📨
Welcome. You can find
here some of my papers as well as associated software and ancillary files.
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. 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.
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
Assistant Research
Scientist
Center for Inequality Dynamics
ISR Building
426 Thompson St.,
Room 2030
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
+1 734 647 2666