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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Top Heavy: A Study of the Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America | Edward N. Wolff |
Top Heavy: A Study of the Increasing Inequality of Wealth in AmericaAuthor: Edward N. WolffPublisher: The Century Foundation, Inc. Date: |
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How do Friendships Form? | David Marmaros and Bruce I. Sacerdote |
How do Friendships Form?Author: David Marmaros and Bruce I. SacerdotePublisher: Quarterly Journal of Economics Date: |
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Changing Highbrow Taste: From Snob to Omnivore | Richard A. Peterson and Roger M. Kern |
Changing Highbrow Taste: From Snob to OmnivoreAuthor: Richard A. Peterson and Roger M. KernPublisher: Date: |
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What's Behind the Rise in Profitability in the US in the 1980s and 1990s? | Edward N. Wolff |
What's Behind the Rise in Profitability in the US in the 1980s and 1990s?Author: Edward N. WolffPublisher: Cambridge Journal of Economics Date: |
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Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life | Annette Lareau |
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family LifeAuthor: Annette LareauPublisher: University of California Press Date: |
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mobility - CPI Affiliates
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Stefan Svallfors |
Professor of Sociology; Chairman of Social Welfare Research; Professor in Sociology, Södertörn University; Research Director, Institute for Futures Studies |
Umea University |
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Tak Wing Chan |
Professor of Quantitative Social Science |
UCL Institute of Education |
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Vered Kraus |
Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology |
University of Haifa |
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Gary Solon |
Professor Emeritus of Economics |
University of Michigan |
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Walter Korpi |
Professor, Swedish Institute for Social Research |
Stockholm University |
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Mobility - Other Research
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The Rise of Intra-Occupational Wage Inequality in the United States, 1983 to 2002 | Chang Kim, Hwan and Arthur Sakamoto |
The Rise of Intra-Occupational Wage Inequality in the United States, 1983 to 2002Author: Chang Kim, Hwan and Arthur SakamotoPublisher: American Sociological Review Date: |
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Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique | Frank Parkin |
Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois CritiqueAuthor: Frank ParkinPublisher: Columbia University Press Date: *** |
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Class, Status, Party | Max Weber | ||
Gender, Children, and Social Contact: The Effects of Childrearing for Men and Women | Munch, Allison, Miller McPherson, and Lynn Smith-... |
Gender, Children, and Social Contact: The Effects of Childrearing for Men and WomenAuthor: Munch, Allison, Miller McPherson, and Lynn Smith-...Publisher: American Sociology Review Date: |
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The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class | Alvin W. Gouldner |
The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New ClassAuthor: Alvin W. GouldnerPublisher: Seabury Press Date: |
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