Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States*

By Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick M. Kline, Emmanuel Saez. 2014

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Non est Disputandum de Generalizability? A Glimpse into The External Validity Trial (2020, background): “…to pick one, I would choose my work on the roots and consequences of economic and racial inequality, which spans a number of papers (see, e.g., Chetty et al., 2014, Chetty et al., 2018, Chetty et al., 2019.6 The work broadly focuses on how we can give children from disadvantaged backgrounds a…”
Innovation and Top Income Inequality (2018, background): “Having moved from cross-state to cross-CZ analysis allows us to look at how innovation affects social mobility, using the various measures of social mobility in Chetty et al. (2014) combined with our local measures of innovation and with the various controls mentioned above.”
Regional inequality in Europe: evidence, theory and policy implications (2019, positive): “Poorer regions have growing social, health and behavioural pathologies that become ingrained and difficult to improve (Chetty et al., 2014; Autor et al., 2017).”
Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility (2014, neutral): “The trends in mobility are small especially in comparison to the variation across areas within the U.S.”
Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution (2018, methodology): “U.S.: Information on intergenerational mobility for the U.S. comes from Chetty et al. (2014), and is based on administrative tax records covering the universe of taxpayers 1996-2012.”
Who Needs a Fracking Education? The Educational Response to Low-Skill-Biased Technological Change (2020, positive): “Like metropolitan areas, CZs have been used in past research to define local labor markets (e.g., Autor and Dorn 2013; Autor, Dorn, and Hanson 2013a 2013b; Chetty et al. 2014), but they have the relative advantage of covering the entire United States, including rural areas.”
The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood Exposure Effects (2018, methodology): “of permanent residents ȳpcs are not highly correlated with mean parent incomes across areas (Chetty et al. 2014).”
Unequal hopes and lives in the USA: optimism, race, place, and premature mortality (2019, background): “Anumber of studies have focusedondifferential trends inmobility (and fear of downward mobility, Cherlin 2016); differential health behaviors (Chetty et al. 2016); inequality of opportunity (Chetty et al. 2014); and structural economic trends.”