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251 - Regular Session. The Geography of Social Mobility: Sociological Perspectives
Sun, August 21, 12:30 to 2:10pm, TBASession Submission Type: Paper Session 100min
Description
Recent work in economics has documented strong geographic variation in social mobility within the United States (Chetty et al. 2014). Papers in this session seek to uncover the policy and institutional determinants of this variation (or lack thereof) across locals in the U.S. and Germany.
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Individual Presentations
The Effect of Violent Crime on Economic Mobility - Patrick T. Sharkey, New York University; Gerard Torrats-Espinosa, New York University
Medicaid and Intergenerational Economic Mobility - Rourke Liam OBrien, University of Wisconsin; Cassandra Robertson, Harvard University
Assisted Housing, Segregation, and Intergenerational Income Persistence: Exploring the Geography of Unequal Opportunity - Deirdre Bloome, University of Michigan; Ann Owens, University of Southern California
A Natural Experiment on Social Mobility: East and West Germany after Reunification - Michael Grätz, Nuffield College, University of Oxford