What if we treated child poverty like elderly poverty?
Tag: mobility
I overspoke myself on Twitter
Possibly not the only time. A blog called Random Critical Analysis (RCA) has posted, "On Philip Cohen’s knee-jerk response to Chetty’s “causal mobility” data and its association with single-motherhood." I now must admit that I overspoke myself on Twitter. But I think the blog post I wrote holds up OK. I complained in the post that…
How well do teen test scores predict adult income?
Just how messy is a very strong statistical relationship?
How to illustrate a .61 relationship with a .93 figure: Chetty and Wilcox edition
How Chetty et al. -- and Brad Wilcox -- illustrated a .61 relationship with a .93 figure.
Where is race in the Chetty et al. mobility paper?
The burgeoning elite conversation about economic mobility, poverty, and inequality is good news. It's avoidance of race is not.
Inequality, mobility, single mothers, and race: comment
Percent Black statistically explains the relationship between single motherhood and intergenerational immobility across U.S. labor markets.
Twin peaks of intergenerational mobility
Staying at the top and staying at the bottom.
Reproducing childhood hardship
More evidence for the intergenerational transmission of social class, via health outcomes.
How do they do it?
How families transmit inequality is an area where some of sociology's big ideas are actually being pursued, challenged and tested.
Four-out-of-five myths about America
Even if it's not the most important thing, income sure helps.
Family Inequality 