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 ...
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.
Inequalities in income, wealth, health, and life expectancies have been increasing over the last several decades in the United States. Since around 1980, fewer Americans than before are doing better ...
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 ...
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 ...
Melina R. Platas is in the Social Science Division, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, PO Box 129188, United Arab Emirates. Read the paper: Religion and educational mobility in Africa Existing ...