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The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I : Childhood Exposure Effects

Chetty, Raj - 2016

We show that the neighborhoods in which children grow up shape their earnings, college attendance rates, and fertility and marriage patterns by studying more than seven million families who move across commuting zones and counties in the U.S. Exploiting variation in the age of children when...

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Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility

Chetty, Raj - 2014

We present new evidence on trends in intergenerational mobility in the U.S. using administrative earnings records. We find that percentile rank-based measures of intergenerational mobility have remained extremely stable for the 1971-1993 birth cohorts. For children born between 1971 and 1986, we...

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Changing Opportunity : Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility

Chetty, Raj; Dobbie, Will; Goldman, Benjamin; Porter, Sonya - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

, as proxied by parental employment rates, within local communities defined by race, class, and childhood county. Outcomes … improve across birth cohorts for children who grow up in communities with increasing parental employment rates, with larger … parental employment rates of peers they are more likely to interact with, such as those in their own birth cohort, suggesting …

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