“Multigenerational mobility” refers to the associations in socioeconomic status across three or more generations. This article begins by summarizing the longstanding but recently growing empirical literature on multigenerational mobility.
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The conventional wisdom is that racial diversity promotes positive race relations and reduces racial residential segregation between blacks and whites.
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March, 2015
The country’s capacity to monitor trends in social mobility has languished since the last major survey on U.S. social mobility was fielded in 1973.
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January, 2015
In this brief, we consider differences across rural and urban America in each of these measures, given the very different economic conditions that prevail in rural America, where higher paying jobs and those with employer-provided health insurance areless common (McLaughlin and Coleman-Jensen 200
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December, 2014
Since the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, researchers and policy makers have paid close attention to trends in school segregation.
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July, 2014
The United States is often hailed as the “land of opportunity,” a society in which a child’s chances of success depend little on his family background. Is this reputation warranted?
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June, 2014
We combine two approaches to gauge the achievements of the Mexican-origin second generation: one the intergenerational progress between immigrant parents and children, the other the gap between the second generation and non-Latino whites.
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June, 2014