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intergenerational mobility

3 papers tagged “intergenerational mobility”

EconomicsThe Quarterly Journal of Economics · May 2020 Open access

Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective

Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones and Sonya R. Porter

Using de-identified longitudinal data covering nearly the entire U.S. population, the authors study racial and ethnic differences in intergenerational income mobility. They find persistent black-white income gaps driven primarily by differences among men, while black and white women have similar outcomes conditional on parental income. They show neighborhood and family-background factors explain little of the gap, which persists even within the same neighborhoods.

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EconomicsNBER Working Paper Series · Oct 2018 Open access

The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility

Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones and Sonya R. Porter

The authors link anonymized federal tax records to census data to estimate children's adult outcomes by the neighborhood in which they grew up, at the Census-tract level for the entire United States. They build the Opportunity Atlas, showing that mobility varies enormously even between adjacent tracts and that childhood environment causally shapes later outcomes. The data reveal which specific neighborhoods foster upward mobility and identify correlates such as poverty rates, family structure, and racial composition.

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EconomicsScience · Apr 2017 Open access

The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940

Raj Chetty, David Grusky, Maximilian Hell, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert Manduca and Jimmy Narang

The authors measure absolute income mobility, defined as the fraction of children who earn more than their parents did at the same age, for U.S. birth cohorts from 1940 to the 1980s. Combining tax records with historical data, they show that this measure has declined dramatically over the period. They attribute most of the decline to the rising concentration of income growth rather than to slower aggregate growth.

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