Comparer des méthodes

	Status Attainment Model	Intergenerational Elasticity
Domaine	Sociology	Sociology
Famille	Regression model	Regression model
Année d'origine	1967	1992
Auteur d'origine	Peter Blau & Otis Dudley Duncan	Gary Solon (modern estimation)
Type	Recursive path model of occupational attainment	Regression-based measure of intergenerational income persistence
Source fondatrice	Blau, P. M., & Duncan, O. D. (1967). The American Occupational Structure. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 978-0-471-08035-0	Solon, G. (1992). Intergenerational income mobility in the United States. American Economic Review, 82(3), 393–408.
Alias	Blau-Duncan model, basic status attainment model, occupational attainment path model, socioeconomic life-cycle model	IGE, intergenerational income elasticity, intergenerational income persistence, father-son income elasticity
Apparentées	5	5
Résumé	The status attainment model, introduced by Peter Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan in The American Occupational Structure (1967), is a recursive path model that explains an individual's occupational status from their social origins and intervening achievements. In its basic form, father's education and father's occupation influence the respondent's education and first job, which in turn shape current occupational status. By decomposing the link between origins and destinations into direct and education-mediated indirect paths, it established that education is the principal channel through which advantage is transmitted across generations.	The intergenerational elasticity of income (IGE) is the workhorse measure of economic mobility: the regression coefficient from regressing a child's adult log income on the parent's log income. It expresses the percentage by which a child's expected income rises for each one-percent increase in parental income, so a higher IGE means income advantages and disadvantages are more strongly transmitted across generations and society is less mobile.