Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility

By Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, Danny Yagan. 2017

598 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• The Impact of Price Caps and Spending Cuts on U.S. Postsecondary Attainment (2017, unknown): “Yet math and reading achievement levels of U.S. students have remained constant or even increased slightly in recent years (National Center for Education Statistics, 2015b).”
• Human capital and income inequality* (2018, unknown): “Empirical studies have supported the significant influence of parents’ income and education for children’s education, especially at the secondary and tertiary levels (e.g., Haveman and Wolfe 1995; Chetty et al. 2017).”
• Elite Colleges and Upward Mobility to Top Jobs and Top Incomes (2019, unknown): “They are consistent with descriptive findings from Chetty et al. (2017) that a small number of top colleges account for a large share of upper tail incomes, and with additional calculations using Mobility Report Card data showing that there is a steep SES gradient in upper tail attainment within…”
• Closing the Gap: The Effect of a Targeted, Tuition-Free Promise on College Choices of High-Achieving, Low-Income Students (2018, unknown): “Using administrative tax data for the entire United States, Chetty et al. (2017) find that just 12 percent of college students come from the bottom fifth of the family-income distribution, while 28 percent are from the top fifth.”
• The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood Exposure Effects (2018, unknown): “D ow nloaded from https://academ ic.oup.com /qje/article/133/3/1107/4850660 by M IT Libraries user on 06 July 2023 in the United States because the database only records current citizenship status.”
• Equalization or Selection? Reassessing the “Meritocratic Power” of a College Degree in Intergenerational Income Mobility (2019, unknown): “More recently, using administrative data for over 30 million college students, Chetty et al. (2017) report that although access to different types of colleges varies greatly by parent income, low-income students end up earning about as much in adulthood as their high-income peers if they have attend”