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Estimates of intergenerational mobility in lifetime income derived from incomplete income histories routinely incorporate in the estimation process, necessary life‐cycle adjustments to annual income data. The two‐stage method presented here first estimates proxies for fathers’ and sons’ lifetime family incomes from annual income observations, schooling and race; and then uses these income proxies...