Urban sprawl is not just unsightly. It could also be impeding intergenerational mobility for low-income residents and reinforcing racial inequality, according to a series of recent studies led by a ...
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook File Photo/DAILY. Buy this photo. Her studies looked across singular measures of socioeconomic ...
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New research measuring resources passed from parents to children shows that current estimates of intergenerational mobility may be substantially overstated. The study from Nobel laureate James J.
Urban sprawl is not just unsightly. It could also be impeding intergenerational mobility for low-income residents and reinforcing racial inequality, according to a series of recent studies led by a ...
Researchers studying economic inequality and social mobility have established a strong link between economic outcomes for parents and children. But traditional measures may still understate the role ...
Studies of intergenerational mobility have typically focused on estimating the average persistence across generations. Here, we use the relatively new unconditional quantile regression technique to ...
According to a recent study on economic mobility in the United States, race appears to be a declining factor in terms of explaining intergenerational mobility. For some the conclusion might be that ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The impact of the growth of the local supply of public schools in the post-Colonial period on intergenerational mobility in education is a ...
UDAIPUR, India, Dec. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Centre for Development Policy and Management (CDPM) at IIM Udaipur organised a panel discussion titled 'Intergenerational Mobility and Pathways out of ...
Family conditions -- specifically, how similar one's social status and background is to one's parents' status -- may play a bigger role in determining how easily an individual can shift into a ...