New IEA briefing explains why the Prime Minister is wrong on social mobility.Most studies show that social mobility is not in decline. Some show that it is improving.“Absolute mobility” (the tendency to move up the scale to the professional classes) increased enormously in the twentieth...

This paper examines the effect of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in mitigating racial discrimination in mortgage lending. We first validate that BLM protests are associated with increased awareness and reckoning of racial inequality by local residents. From a sample of mortgage loans...