方法对比

	Optimal Matching Analysis	Intergenerational Elasticity
领域	Sociology	Sociology
方法族	Process / pipeline	Regression model
起源年份	1970 (algorithm); 1980s (sociology)	1992
提出者	Needleman & Wunsch (algorithm); Andrew Abbott (sociological use)	Gary Solon (modern estimation)
类型	Edit-distance dissimilarity between categorical sequences	Regression-based measure of intergenerational income persistence
开创性文献	Abbott, A., & Tsay, A. (2000). Sequence analysis and optimal matching methods in sociology: review and prospect. Sociological Methods & Research, 29(1), 3–33.	Solon, G. (1992). Intergenerational income mobility in the United States. American Economic Review, 82(3), 393–408.
别名	optimal matching, OMA, edit-distance sequence comparison, Levenshtein sequence distance	IGE, intergenerational income elasticity, intergenerational income persistence, father-son income elasticity
相关	5	5
摘要	Optimal matching analysis measures how dissimilar two categorical sequences are by computing the minimum total cost of editing one sequence into the other through substitution and insertion/deletion operations. Borrowed from computer science and molecular biology and introduced to sociology by Andrew Abbott, it supplies the pairwise distances that underpin sequence analysis of careers, family histories, and other life-course trajectories.	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.