Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility
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- Raj Chetty & John N. Friedman & Emmanuel Saez & Nicholas Turner & Danny Yagan, 2017. "Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility," NBER Working Papers 23618, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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income mobility; college students; role of education;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2017-08-27 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2017-08-27 (Public Economics)
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