NBER WORKING PAPER SERIESRECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITYSandra E. BlackPaul J. DevereuxWorking Paper 15889http://www.nber.org/papers/w15889NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH1050 Massachusetts AvenueCambridge, MA 02138April 2010Prepared for the Handbook of Labor Economics. We would like to thank Anders Bjorklund, DanHamermesh, Helena Holmlund, Kanika Kapur, Gary Solon, Alexandra Spitz-Oener, and Steve Trejofor helpful comments. Prudence Kwenda provided excellent research assistance. Devereux thanksthe Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) for financial support.This chapter was completed while Black was on leave at the Department of Economics, Universityof Texas, Austin. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflectthe views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.© 2010 by Sandra E. Black and Paul J. Devereux. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not toexceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including© notice, is given to the source.