TY  - JOUR
AU  - Connolly, Marie
AU  - Corak, Miles
AU  - Haeck, Catherine
TI  - Intergenerational Mobility between and within Canada and the United States
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 25735
PY  - 2019
Y2  - April 2019
DO  - 10.3386/w25735
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w25735
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w25735.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Marie Connolly
Université du Québec à Montréal
C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-ville
Montréal QC H3C 3P8
Canada
E-Mail: connolly.marie@uqam.ca

Miles Corak
The Graduate Center, City University of New York  
Department of Economics 
and Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
E-Mail: mcorak@gc.cuny.edu

Catherine Haeck
Université du Québec à Montréal
C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-ville
Montréal QC H3C 3P8
Canada
E-Mail: haeck.catherine@uqam.ca
M1  - published as Marie Connolly, Miles Corak, Catherine Haeck. "Intergenerational Mobility Between and Within Canada and the United States," in Philip Oreopoulos and David Card, organizers, "Small Differences II: Public Policies in Canada and the United States" The University of Chicago Press, Journal of Labor Economics volume 37, S2 (2019)

M3  - presented at "Public Policies in Canada and the United States", October 27-28, 2016
AB  - Intergenerational income mobility is lower in the United States than in Canada, but varies significantly within each country. Our sub-national analysis finds that the national border only partially distinguishes the close to one thousand regions we analyze within these two countries. The Canada-US border divides Central and Eastern Canada from the Great Lakes regions and the Northeast of the United States. At the same time some Canadian regions have more in common with the low mobility southern parts of the United States than with the rest of Canada, and the fact that these areas represent a much larger fraction of the American population also explains why mobility is lower in the United States.
ER  -