Income Mobility By County
These datasets allow you to analyze social mobility and a variety of other outcomes from life expectancy to patent rates by neighborhood college parental income level and racial background.
Income mobility by county. In the county which is made up largely of. However income inequality in the county is extremely high and prospects for upward economic mobility for the county s low income residents are poor. A study featured in new york times this week takes a looks at income mobility at the county level across the country. In models adjusting for average income income inequality and county population size each 1 sd increase in the social mobility measure equivalent to the difference between a low mobility state such as alabama and a higher mobility state such as massachusetts was associated with an increase of 0 47 95 cri 0 40 0 55 years in life.
The sons of immigrants and the sons of us born workers earned the same. The social mobility of 82 countries it s an unfortunate truth that a person s opportunities can be partially tethered to their socioeconomic status at birth. 2014 2018 median household income in the united states by county. The income mobility gap between children of immigrants and those of us born workers diminishes by almost 70 percent when children s income levels are compared within a geographic region.
The research was conducted by a pair of harvard economists raj chetty and. 2014 2018 median household income in the united states by county. When the researchers examined mobility data at the county level the gap disappeared. Less segregation by income and race lower levels of income inequality better schools lower rates.
Participants in the bipartisan study titled housing choice voucher mobility reviewed the creating moves to opportunity project in seattle king county washington. Across the country the researchers found five factors associated with strong upward mobility. However it boils down to what opportunities. Income is the gauge many use to determine the well being of the u s.
This project looked at what barriers exist that keep low income housing voucher recipients from moving to areas with more upward mobility.