While the national conversation around childhood obesity often focuses on rising health care costs, new research co-authored ...

New CAP research, co-authored with economists Richard Freeman and Eunice Han, indicates that policies that make it easier for workers to form unions and bargain collectively should be at the heart of ...

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 ...

Intergenerational mobility is a central measure of the nation’s economic well-being. While measures of economic growth capture average levels of material well-being, and measures of inequality capture ...

The Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics hosted Janeria Easley, assistant professor of African American studies at Emory University, at the Institute for Social Research Tuesday morning. As part of ...

Researchers studying economic inequality and social mobility have established a strong link between economic outcomes for parents and children. But traditional measures may still understate the role ...

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 ...

New research measuring resources passed from parents to children shows that current estimates of intergenerational mobility may be substantially overstated. The study from Nobel laureate James J.

An ad hoc committee will analyze the evidence on key determinants of entrenched poverty and the effectiveness of programs designed to address those determinants to identify policies and programs with ...

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 ...