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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Request for Proposals: How effective was the fiscal response to the COVID-19 recession for workers?

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Equitable Growth hosts State of the Union press briefing with leading U.S. economists

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Equitable Growth’s recent ‘Econ 101’ assessed the state of the U.S. economy and recovery for Capitol Hill staff

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Request for proposals: Research grants for early career scholars

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HBCU Enrollment and Longer-Term Outcomes

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New evidence suggests that receiving benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program facilitates work in the long run

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Wage and Skills’ Spillover Effects of Million Dollar Projects

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Long Term Own and Dynamic Complementarity Effects of the WIC Program

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The Physics of Reparations: A Quantum Leap in Equity

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Missing pieces in the puzzle: Leveraging untapped archival data to connect New Deal housing policies to racial and spatial inequality

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Does guaranteed income facilitate wealth and credit building among Black households in Georgia?

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