Occupation: Economist Birth: August 4, 1979
We don’t really care about test scores. We care about adult outcomes..
I would say basically the commonplace observation that kids aren't going to earn as much as their parents is now is a coin flip at this point. Are yo….
The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter..
Cities that tend of have better schools for middle-income families, they tend to have much better prospects for kids moving up in the income distribu….
The solution for rising up kids in the income distributionlies is in creating better childhood environments for kids growing up, especially in low in….
There's an evidence from a number of studies which show that where you grow up and the age at which you move to the suburbs or to a neighborhood that….
Atlanta's a good example of a city that's quite sprawling, where there's a sharp division between where blacks and whites live, between where low-inc….
Every extra year you spend in a better environment makes you more likely to go to college, less likely to have a teenage pregnancy, makes you earn mo….
The latest research on social mobility showed that there's a large aggregate decline in the U.S. in your chances of earning more than your parents. B….
It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations..