Topic Economic Mobility

Economic mobility measures the relationship between a parent and child’s economic outcomes, usually in terms of income. Too often, an individual’s economic outcome in the United States is determined by parental resources, race, and privilege, rather than individual effort and talent. In addition, rising economic inequality over the past several decades means that the consequences of stalled or falling economic mobility have gotten worse. Equitable Growth seeks to understand how today’s inequalities could be foreclosing equality of opportunity for future generations.

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Equitable Growth hosts Econ 101 virtual event on how U.S. social insurance programs boost economic mobility

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Factsheet: U.S. economic mobility and policies to increase upward mobility

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In Conversation with Miles Corak

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U.S. economic mobility trends and outcomes

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Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility

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Race and the lack of intergenerational economic mobility in the United States

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Inequality of educational opportunity? Schools as mediators of the intergenerational transmission of income

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The importance of equitable growth for future mobility in the United States

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The historical shadow of segregation on human capital and upward mobility

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How local barriers to migration shape relocation and earnings in the wake of china trade shocks

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Up from slavery? African American intergenerational economic mobility since 1880

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The persistence of earnings differences among white and black men

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A reminder on the current size of the gig economy

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The student loan crisis is fueled by a weak labor market

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Seminar Series: Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth (Invitation only)

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A new way to look at how U.S. firms affect their workers’ pay now and in the future

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Do U.S. women choose low-paid occupations, or do low-paid occupations choose them?

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Seminar Series: Parenthood and the gender wage gap (Invitation only)

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