Policy makers and parents should share a goal that all children have opportunities to thrive, regardless of their circumstances at birth. Studies that focus on socioeconomic measures of opportunities ...

Most students attend college because they believe it will gain them access to good jobs that pay high salaries. For most students, this is a reasonable expectation: the typical bachelor’s degree ...

Raj Chetty, a professor of economics at Harvard University and the director of Opportunity Insights, a Harvard-based research and policy group that analyzes big data, has spent much of his career so ...

Intergenerational mobility is a central measure of the nation’s economic well-being. While measures of economic growth capture average levels of material well-being, and measures of inequality capture ...

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.

Intergenerational mobility refers to the extent to which economic status or income level is transmitted from one generation to the next. Low mobility implies strong persistence of advantage or ...

The concept of economic mobility is relatively simple to grasp. Over the course of a lifetime, can people move up the rungs of the income ladder? Are children doing better than their parents when it ...

The relationship between the income levels of parents and their children once they reach adulthood is complex, but education could be one of the factors that influence Canadian intergenerational ...

This paper analyzes the link between digitalization and intergenerational occupational mobility in Africa. We use a probit model estimated on a large sample of 28 million individuals aged 14 and ...