What last names reveal about social mobility. Americans pride themselves in living in the "land of opportunity." ...

Furthermore, the rates of social mobility found in most of these studies differed greatly from one country to another, with, for instance, Sweden scoring much higher than the United States in this ...

Social mobility is under scrutiny, and the experiences of the pandemic have shone a forensic light up on it – although it’s now no longer possible to extrapolate what will happen in the future ...

The new analysis of U.S. counties links greater social mobility to a smaller longevity gap, as well as a lack of social mobility to a bigger life expectancy gap. In fact, ...

The myth destroying America: Why social mobility is beyond ordinary people's control Americans overwhelmingly believe they control their financial destinies, but a huge body of research says otherwise ...

That’s according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Social Mobility Index, which ranks 82 countries on their citizens’ ability to fulfill their potential regardless of their socio-economic ...

And now, along with Shima Hamidi, he's completed an updated version of a sprawl index that marries all of this analysis with the findings on social mobility from Chetty et al. Ewing's latest study ...

Social mobility measures which colleges give students, particularly those who are low-income or first-generation, the greatest return on their investment. Essentially, ...

Politics. Increasing Social Mobility Is Hard. Here's Why That's Not Changing Any Time Soon. We shouldn't choose policies based on how they make us feel.

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Welfare programs are structured poorly and punish people for working to climb out of poverty. An estimated 710,000 ...

The social-mobility rankings encourage us to sidestep these hard questions and the uncomfortable, complex realities of our academic system by distilling everything down to a single rating.