Social Mobility
Leaders: Raj Chetty, Gary Solon, Florencia Torche
The purpose of the Social Mobility RG is to develop and exploit new administrative sources for measuring mobility and the effects of policy on mobility out of poverty. This research group is doing so by (a) providing comprehensive analyses of intergenerational mobility based on linked administrative data from U.S. tax returns, W-2s, and other sources, and (b) developing a new infrastructure for monitoring social mobility, dubbed the American Opportunity Study, that is based on linking census and other administrative data. Here’s a sampling of projects:
Small place estimates: The Equal Opportunity Project, led by Raj Chetty, uses tax return data to monitor opportunities for mobility out of poverty. In one of the new lines of analysis coming out of this project, the first round of results at the level of “commuting zones” are being redone at a more detailed level (e.g., census block level), thus allowing for even better inferences about the effects of place.
The American Opportunity Study: This research group is also collaborating with the Census Bureau to develop a new infrastructure for monitoring mobility that treats linked decennial census data as the spine on which other administrative data are hung.
Colleges and rising income inequality: Where do poor children go to attend college? The “Mobility Report Card” will convey the joint distribution of parent and student incomes for every Title IV institution in the United States.
The “absolute mobility” of the poor: What fraction of poor children grow up to earn more than their parents? Have rates of absolute upward mobility changed over time? This project develops a new method of estimating rates of absolute mobility for the 1940-1984 birth cohorts.
Intergenerational elasticities in the U.S.: There remains some debate about the size of intergenerational elasticities in the U.S. A rarely-used sample of 1987 tax data provides new evidence on U.S. elasticities.
Featured Examples
Mobility - CPI Research
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Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction | Pierre Bourdieu |
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Cultural Reproduction and Social ReproductionAuthor: Pierre BourdieuPublisher: Oxford University Press Date: According to Bourdieu, cultural reproduction is the social process through which culture is reproduced across generations, especially through the socializing influence of major institutions. Bourdieu applied the concept in particular to the ways in which social institutions such as schools are used to pass along cultural ideas that underlie and support the privileged position of the dominant or upper class. Cultural reproduction is part of a larger process of social reproduction through which entire societies and their cultural, structural, and ecological characteristics are reproduced through a process that invariably involves a certain amount of social change. From a Marxist perspective, social reproduction is primarily economic in scope. In a broader sense, however, social reproduction is much more than this, from the shape of religious institutions to language and varieties of music and other cultural products. |
Compensation Inequality | Brooks Pierce | ||
Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers | Jacobson, Louis S., Robert J. Lalonde and Daniel... |
Earnings Losses of Displaced WorkersAuthor: Jacobson, Louis S., Robert J. Lalonde and Daniel...Publisher: American Economic Review Date: |
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Class and Status: The Conceptual Distinction and its Empirical Relevance | Wing Chan Tak John H. Goldthorpe |
Class and Status: The Conceptual Distinction and its Empirical RelevanceAuthor: Wing Chan Tak John H. GoldthorpePublisher: American Sociological Review Date: |
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Resources and Relationships: Social Networks and Mobility in the Workplace | Podolny, Joel M. and James N. Baron |
Resources and Relationships: Social Networks and Mobility in the WorkplaceAuthor: Podolny, Joel M. and James N. BaronPublisher: American Sociological Review Date: |
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mobility - CPI Affiliates
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Ineke Maas |
Associate Professor of Sociology; Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, VU University Amsterdam |
Utrecht University |
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Ira I. Katznelson |
Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History |
Columbia University |
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Jan O. Jonsson |
Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University |
Oxford University |
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Jennie Brand |
Professor of Sociology and Statistics |
UCLA |
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John Goldthorpe |
Emeritus Fellow, Sociology |
Nuffield College |
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Mobility - Other Research
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The Contingent Value of Social Capital | Ronald S. Burt |
The Contingent Value of Social CapitalAuthor: Ronald S. BurtPublisher: Cornell University, Graduate School of Business and Public Administration Date: Burt presents argument and evidence for a structural ecology of social capital that describes how the value of social capital to an individual is contingent on the number of people doing the same work. The information and control benefits of bridging the structural holes - or, disconnections between non-redundant contacts in a network - that constitute social capital are especially valuable to managers with few peers. Such managers do not have the guiding frame of reference for behavior provided by numerous competitors, and the work they do does not have the legitimacy provided by numerous people doing the same kind of work. Burt uses network and performance data on a probability sample of senior managers to show how the value of social capital, high on average for the managers, varies as a power function of the number of people doing the same work. |
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Race, Kin Networks, and Assistance to Mother-Headed Families | Hogan, Dennis P., Ling-Xin Hao, and William L.... |
Race, Kin Networks, and Assistance to Mother-Headed FamiliesAuthor: Hogan, Dennis P., Ling-Xin Hao, and William L....Publisher: Social Forces Date: |
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste | Pierre Bourdieu |
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of TasteAuthor: Pierre BourdieuPublisher: Harvard University Press Date: |
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Social Mobility in Industrial Society | Seymour Martin Lipset and Reinhard Bendix |
Social Mobility in Industrial SocietyAuthor: Seymour Martin Lipset and Reinhard BendixPublisher: Transaction Publishers Date: |
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Job Displacement and Social Participation over the Lifecourse: Findings for a Cohort of Joiners | Jennie E. Brand and Sarah A. Burgard |
Job Displacement and Social Participation over the Lifecourse: Findings for a Cohort of JoinersAuthor: Jennie E. Brand and Sarah A. BurgardPublisher: Social Forces Date: |
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