A recent study from Harvard University’s Opportunity Insights analyzes changes in economic opportunity using new data on 57 million children born between 1978 and 1992 from anonymized Census and tax records.
Advances in the scale and sophistication of individual income data compiled across high-income countries have enabled researchers to measure inequality and intergenerational mobility at a highly granu
Since the mid-1970s, there has been a sharp rise in the prevalence of “bad jobs” in the U.S. labor market, characterized by stagnant wages, unstable work schedules, and limited fringe benefits.
Intergenerational mobility captures the distance between the socioeconomic positions of parents versus their adult children.
Does a woman’s take-up of government benefits vary with her perception of how they will be shared within the household?
"The Case for Equity," a new video series from Harvard Kennedy School and the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, will explore equity in a variety of contexts, including health care, economics, education and more.
