Haley E.B. Wilbert

Efforts to document long-term trends in socioeconomic mobility in the US have been hindered by the lack of large, representative datasets linking parents to adult children, a challenge especially acute for women due to surname changes. We use a new dataset, the Census Tree, which incorporates...

The Census Tree is the largest-ever database of record links among the historical U.S. censuses, with over 700 million links for people living in the United States between 1850 and 1940. These high-quality links allow researchers in the social sciences and other disciplines to construct a...