Economic mobility in America: A state-of-the-art primer

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Economic mobility in America: A state-of-the-art primer

1 Dec 2021

Executive Summary: Is the American Dream dying? A number of studies have examined this question by looking at trends in intergenerational economic mobility. However, studies using different datasets have produced different results. Few studies consider both relative and absolute mobility trends for both men and women. Few consider both summary measures of mobility and finer-grained …
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Authors

Scott Winship

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United States of America

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