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Social capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility. [PDF]
Nature, 2022 Social capital—the strength of an individual’s social network and community—has been identified as a potential determinant of outcomes ranging from education to health1–8.
Chetty R +21 more
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Individualistic culture increases economic mobility in the United States. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021 Significance While previous cross-national comparisons have shown that individualistic societies are associated with more innovation, growth, and income mobility than collectivist societies, our analysis, operating at a finer spatial resolution ...
Leonard B, Smith SM.
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Work-Limiting Disability and Intergenerational Economic Mobility. [PDF]
Soc Sci Q, 2020 Objective: To examine whether work-limiting disability may modify intergenerational economic mobility in the United States. Methods: Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, common metrics of intergenerational mobility are estimated by parent work ...
Jajtner KM.
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Economic mobility and parents' opportunity hoarding. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S ACreating opportunities for people to achieve socioeconomic mobility is a widely shared societal goal. Paradoxically, however, achieving this goal can pose a threat to high-socioeconomic-status (SES) people as they look to maintain their privileged positions in society for both them and their children.
Silverman DM +5 more
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Early-life Medicaid Coverage and Intergenerational Economic Mobility. [PDF]
J Health Soc Behav, 2018 New data reveal significant variation in economic mobility outcomes across U.S. localities. This suggests that social structures, institutions, and public policies—particularly those that influence critical early-life environments—play an important role ...
O'Brien RL, Robertson CL.
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Prenatal exposure to air pollution and intergenerational economic mobility: Evidence from U.S. county birth cohorts. [PDF]
Soc Sci Med, 2018 New estimates reveal intergenerational economic mobility varies substantially across U.S. counties. The potential role of local environmental health exposures in structuring mobility outcomes has been thus far unexamined, despite mounting evidence that ...
O'Brien RL +4 more
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Health Endowment at Birth and Variation in Intergenerational Economic Mobility: Evidence From U.S. County Birth Cohorts. [PDF]
Demography, 2018 New estimates of intergenerational economic mobility reveal substantial variation in the spatial distribution of opportunity in the United States. Efforts to explain this variation in economic mobility have conspicuously omitted health despite it being a
Robertson C, O'Brien R.
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Socius, 2020 Are judgments of the fairness of the American economy based on perceptions of economic inequality, mobility, or both? In two experiments, the authors varied information on levels of U.S.
Nicholas Heiserman +2 more
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Documenting decline in U.S. economic mobility [PDF]
Science, 2017 Median incomes stagnate as inequality increases Economists and other social scientists have long studied intergenerational income mobility, but consistent data linking adult incomes of children and their parents at similar ages over many generations have
Lawrence F. Katz, A. Krueger
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Neighborhoods, Cities, and Economic Mobility
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2016 Most of the research literature explaining the level of economic mobility in the United States focuses on characteristics of individuals or families. This article expands the focus beyond the individual and the family to consider features of communities ...
Patrick Sharkey
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