Past event

Department of Economics Seminar with Professor Jo Blanden, University of Surrey

Professor Blanden's research interests lie broadly in the fields of labour and family economics. Her PhD was on the topic of intergenerational income mobility. Her work with Paul Gregg and Steve Machin on ‘Changes in Intergenerational Mobility in Britain' found that the relationship between family income and children's adult earnings has strengthened for those born in 1970 compared to those born in 1958; this finding has attracted a large amount of policy and media interest. She continues to work on social mobility, and her current discussion paper with Stephen Machin and Andy Eyles, ‘Trends in Intergenerational Home Ownership and Wealth Transmission', indicates that wealth mobility has also declined among recent cohorts.

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