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Social Mobility and Poverty


Social Mobility and Poverty | Introduction to Sociology

Social stratification affects a wide range of life chances, including things like parenting, educational attainment, and health.

Why upward mobility from poverty is particularly low in the United ...

The authors find that intergenerational poverty in the US is four times stronger than in Denmark and Germany, and twice as strong as in Australia and the UK.

Social mobility and equal opportunity | OECD

Social mobility refers to how a person's socio-economic situation improves or declines relative to that of their parents or throughout their lifetime.

Economic Mobility - Poverty Solutions - University of Michigan

Economic mobility refers to people's ability to improve their economic status over the course of their lifetimes.

Social Mobility - Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality

The purpose of the Social Mobility RG is to develop and exploit new administrative sources for measuring mobility and the effects of policy on mobility out of ...

Boosting Upward Mobility from Poverty | Urban Institute

With continued support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Boosting Upward Mobility from Poverty project builds on Partnership's work by developing ...

Social Capital and Economic Mobility - Opportunity Insights

Differences in economic connectedness can explain the relationship between upward mobility and other factors, such as poverty rates and racial segregation. • ...

Beyond Poverty Escapes—Social Mobility in Developing Countries

We report and touch on the implications of suggestive findings of a disconnect between educational and occupational mobility.

Why Dignity Matters to Upward Mobility | Urban Institute

Mobility from poverty in the US has captured the attention of researchers and policymakers in recent years because of persistent income and ...

Economic Mobility - Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality

We begin by show- ing that upward income mobility is significantly lower in areas with larger African-American populations. However, white individuals in areas ...

Current Trends in Social Mobility: Raj Chetty

This video is part of our free online course on poverty and inequality in the United States.

Eliminating poverty through social mobility promotes cooperation in ...

We find that mobility of low-income individuals can promote cooperation when the per capita mobility rate is as low as in the order of magnitude as long as ...

An Atlas of Upward Mobility Shows Paths Out of Poverty

It finds that poor children who grow up in some cities and towns have sharply better odds of escaping poverty than similar poor children elsewhere.

Economic Mobility and Opportunity | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Economic mobility is decreasing in the United States, and even a college education does not guarantee financial stability. · We envision an economic system that ...

Economic Mobility: Measuring the American Dream | HUD USER

The research measures mobility based on the odds of a child from the bottom 20% of the income bracket reaching the top 20%. Chetty explains this ...

The US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty

The US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty's definition of mobility comprises three core principles: economic success, power and autonomy, and being valued in ...

Educational expansion, poverty reduction and social mobility

This article examines the role of education in alleviating poverty in a context of high rates of income inequalities.

Poverty and Social Mobility in Houston - Understanding Houston

Too many Houston-area families are stuck in the cycle of intergenerational poverty, preventing economic mobility.

Opportunity & Social Mobility | American Enterprise Institute - AEI

Our scholarship spans economic well-being, poverty, income, living standards, early childhood development, education, employment, intergenerational mobility, ...

Intergenerational Social Mobility and Popular Explanations of Poverty

More educated individuals have a lower probability of choosing laziness but are more likely to name inevitability of modern life as an ...