Mobility

In this video, Miles Corak joins a panel discussion on inequality and social mobility at the Pearson Institute's 2023 Global Forum.

P. Brunori, F. H. G. Ferreira, and G. Neidhöfer. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 82. 2024.

P. Brunori, F. H. G. Ferreira, and P. Salas-Rojo. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 81. 2024.

Brandon Martinez, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, brings together research on intergenerational mobility and racial/ethnic inequalities in home ownership to examine the differential impact of parental home ownership on children’s socio-economic attainment across racial/ethnic groups.

In this post, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Enobong (Anna) Branch and her co-author Caroline Hanley explore themes from their recently published book, Work in Black and White: Striving for the American Dream.

L. Monroy-Gómez-Franco, R. Vélez-Grajales, and G. Yalonetzky. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 61. 2023.

R. Chetty, J.N. Friedman, J.C. Gornick, B. Johnson, and A. Kennickell (eds). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2022.

L. Monroy-Gómez-Franco. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 58. 2022.

A working paper by Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Rafia Zafar shows that consumption expenditures can be used to accurately measure mobility in Indonesia, one of the largest lower-middle income countries in the world.

In this interview, Miles Corak discusses the fraying of the American Dream and the power of inequality to disrupt the promise of social mobility.