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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Recent Trends in the Inheritance of Poverty and Family Structure | Kelly Musick, Robert D. Mare |
Recent Trends in the Inheritance of Poverty and Family StructureAuthor: Kelly Musick, Robert D. MarePublisher: Social Science Research Date: 01/2004 |
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Social Capital and the Wages of Mexican Migrants: New Hypotheses and Tests | Michael B. Aguilera , Douglas S. Massey |
Social Capital and the Wages of Mexican Migrants: New Hypotheses and TestsAuthor: Michael B. Aguilera , Douglas S. MasseyPublisher: Social Forces Date: 12/2003 |
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The Motherhood Wage Penalty: Revisited: Experience, Heterogeneity, Work Effort and Work-Schedule Flexibility | Deborah Anderson, Melissa Binder, Kate S Krause |
The Motherhood Wage Penalty: Revisited: Experience, Heterogeneity, Work Effort and Work-Schedule FlexibilityAuthor: Deborah Anderson, Melissa Binder, Kate S KrausePublisher: Industrial and Labor Relations Review Date: 01/2003 |
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Why Do Some Occupations Pay More Than Others? | Kim A. Weeden |
Why Do Some Occupations Pay More Than Others?Author: Kim A. WeedenPublisher: American Journal of Sociology Date: 07/2002 |
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Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility | Gary Solon |
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Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings MobilityAuthor: Gary SolonPublisher: Journal of Economic Perspectives Date: 07/2002 |
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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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Cross-National Comparisons of Earning and Income Inequality | Gottschalk, Peter, and Timothy Smeeding |
Cross-National Comparisons of Earning and Income InequalityAuthor: Gottschalk, Peter, and Timothy SmeedingPublisher: Journal of Economic Literature Date: |
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The Winner-Take-All Society | Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook |
The Winner-Take-All SocietyAuthor: Robert H. Frank and Philip J. CookPublisher: Penguin Books Date: |
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Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973-1992: A Semiparametric Approach | John DiNardo, Nicole M. Fortin and Thomas Lemieux |
Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973-1992: A Semiparametric ApproachAuthor: John DiNardo, Nicole M. Fortin and Thomas LemieuxPublisher: Econometrica Date: |
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The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies | Erikson, Robert and John H. Goldthrope |
The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial SocietiesAuthor: Erikson, Robert and John H. GoldthropePublisher: Clarendon Press Date: |
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Class, Status, and Power: Social Stratification in Comparative Perspective | Reinhard Bendix, Seymour Martin Lipset |
Class, Status, and Power: Social Stratification in Comparative PerspectiveAuthor: Reinhard Bendix, Seymour Martin LipsetPublisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Date: |
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