Authors:Raj Chetty, Harvard UniversityWill Dobbie, Harvard UniversityBenjamin Goldman, Cornell UniversitySonya R. Porter, U.S. Census BureauCrystal S. Yang, Harvard University Abstract: We show that intergenerational mobility changed rapidly by race and class in recent decades and use these trends to study the causal mechanisms underlying changes in economic mobility. For white children in the U.S. born […] The post Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps...
