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Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6

Concha-Arriagada, Carolina; Genicot, Garance; Ray, Debraj (January 2025, Springer Nature Switzerland)
Zimmermann, Klaus F (Ed.)
Chapter entitled “Upward Mobility in Developing Countries.”
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Free, publicly-accessible full text available January 1, 2026
Handbook of the Economics of Conflict Vol 1

Genicot, Garance; Ray, Debraj (December 2024, Elsevier)
Dube, Oeindrila; Morelli, Massimo; Ray, Debraj (Ed.)
Chapter on Identities in Conflict
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Free, publicly-accessible full text available December 6, 2025
Measuring Upward Mobility

https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20220316

Ray, Debraj; Genicot, Garance (November 2023, American Economic Review)

We conceptualize and measure upward mobility over income or wealth. At the core of our exercise is the Growth Progressivity Axiom: transfers of instantaneous growth rates from relatively rich to poor individuals increases upward mobility. This axiom, along with mild auxiliary restrictions, identifies an “upward mobility kernel” with a single free parameter, in which mobility is linear in individual growth rates, with geometrically declining weights on baseline incomes. We extend this kernel to trajectories over intervals. The analysis delivers an upward mobility index that does not rely on panel data. That significantly expands our analytical scope to data-poor settings. (JEL D31, D63, I32, O15, O40)
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