ArticleThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science2015
A New Infrastructure for Monitoring Social Mobility in the United States.
Article in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Multiple Barriers to Economic Opportunity for the "Truly" Disadvantaged and Vulnerable.The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF · 2016Article
- How Has Educational Expansion Shaped Social Mobility Trends in the United States?Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 2015Article
- Potential Data Sources for a New Study of Social Mobility in the United States.The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 2015Article
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Abstract
The country's capacity to monitor trends in social mobility has languished since the last major survey on U.S. social mobility was fielded in 1973. It is accordingly difficult to evaluate recent concerns that social mobility may be declining or to develop mobility policy that is adequately informed by evidence. This article presents a new initiative, dubbed the American Opportunity Study (AOS), that would allow the country to monitor social mobility efficiently and with great accuracy. The AOS entails developing the country's capacity to link records across decennial censuses, the American Community Survey, and administrative sources. If an AOS of this sort were assembled, it would open up new fields of social science inquiry; increase opportunities for evidence-based policy on poverty, mobility, child development, and labor markets; and otherwise constitute a new social science resource with much reach and impact.
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