The Florez family’s experience exemplifies the findings of a new study that looks at an increasingly important metric in higher education: economic mobility. The California Mobility Index ...

Economic mobility has taken a hit in the U.S., with ... may be the company you keep in childhood, according to a new study. The difference between kids who grow up with rich friends and those ...

That's because being friends with them is an important determinant of your economic mobility, according to ... the social networks of 72.2 million Facebook users ages 25 to 44 to create their ...

measurement and associations with economic mobility In the first of the papers, the authors constructed measures of social capital using data on the social networks of 72.2 million US Facebook ...

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The study, "Economic mobility and parents' opportunity hoarding," was published Sept. 3 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Opportunity hoarding can manifest itself in a myriad ...

Philadelphia's entrenched racial wealth gap did not occur by chance, but by design. Addressing it means asking: Who stewards ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte no longer ranks as the worst city in America for economic mobility in a newly-updated study. Harvard's "Changing Opportunity" study ranked the city No. 38 out of 50.

It could also be impeding intergenerational mobility for low-income ... Published in Economic Development Quarterly, this study and two related ones were led by Yehua Dennis Wei, a professor ...

The study’s results were shared during the Economic Mobility Summit in Philadelphia hosted by the Federal Reserve, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia Foundation and the Urban Institute. Over a ...

Economists call this economic mobility—the ability to move up the income ladder and make it to a higher rung than your parents. Harvard University economist Raj Chetty has spent more than a ...