Most students attend college because they believe it will gain them access to good jobs that pay high salaries. For most students, this is a reasonable expectation: the typical bachelor’s degree ...

Urban sprawl is not just unsightly. It could also be impeding intergenerational mobility for low-income residents and reinforcing racial inequality, according to a series of recent studies led by a ...

A panel discussion at IIM Udaipur explored intergenerational mobility and poverty alleviation in India, featuring insights from academia, civil society, and CSR leaders. Despite economic growth, ...

Using the October Household Surveys, we found that the intergenerational education mobility of whites is higher than that of blacks. Among blacks, females have a higher intergenerational education ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook File Photo/DAILY. Buy this photo. Her studies looked across singular measures of socioeconomic ...

Canadians born into high-income families tend to grow into high-income adults, and those born into low-income families tend to remain low income, Statistics Canada says. Middle-class Canadians have ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation The COVID-19 crisis has a severe impact on education and employment and exposed the many social inequities that make some ...

WASHINGTON, October 17, 2017 – Economic mobility across generations in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has improved as people are now more educated than their parents, but the poorest are still ...

Professor Raj Chetty will give three lectures over three consecutive days in the 2016 Lionel Robbins Memorial Lecture series under the overarching theme of "Improving Equality of Opportunity: new ...

Information on social mobility in African countries was once relatively scarce, but a new data set paints a continent-wide picture Ever since the Transatlantic slave trade ramped up in the 17th ...