A father-son analysis sample from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), constructed for use in Callaway, Li, Murtazashvili, and Tsyawo (2026). The sample consists of father-son pairs with non-missing father's education, observed in 2014-2015. Log income variables are pre-computed for convenience.
Format
A data frame with 1,066 rows and 16 variables:
- oldest_son
1 if the son is the oldest son in the household, 0 otherwise
- ageC_97
son's age in 1997
- ageC_14
son's age in 2014
- whiteC
1 if son is non-Hispanic white, 0 otherwise
- blackC
1 if son is non-Hispanic Black, 0 otherwise
- hispanicC
1 if son is Hispanic, 0 otherwise
- incF
father's annual income (dollars)
- incS
son's annual income (dollars)
- ageF
father's age
- educF
father's years of schooling
- ageM
mother's age
- educM
mother's years of schooling
- msa
1 if the family lives in a metropolitan statistical area, 0 otherwise
- asvab
son's ASVAB percentile score
- lci
log son's income (
log(incS))- lpi
log father's income (
log(incF))
Source
Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (https://www.bls.gov/nls/nlsy97.htm). Father-son analysis sample constructed by Irina Murtazashvili.
References
Callaway, B., Li, T., Murtazashvili, I., and Tsyawo, E. S. (2026). Distributional Effects with Two-Sided Measurement Error: An Application to Intergenerational Income Mobility. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2107.09235