New CAP research, co-authored with economists Richard Freeman and Eunice Han, indicates that policies that make it easier for workers to form unions and bargain collectively should be at the heart of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study finds childhood obesity lowers adult income rank by 20 percentile points and reduces access to low-poverty neighborhoods.

The Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics hosted Janeria Easley, assistant professor of African American studies at Emory University, at the Institute for Social Research Tuesday morning. As part of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation The COVID-19 crisis has a severe impact on education and employment and exposed the many social inequities that make some ...

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.

This activity was supported by contracts between the National Academy of Sciences and ACF (# 75ACG121C00093), Bainum Family Foundation (# 7608), Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (# 2021249), ...

Intergenerational relative mobility—the extent to which a person’s life chances are determined by that of her parents—is stagnant or even getting worse. In this talk on October 26, 2021, World Bank ...