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A number of efforts are currently underway to develop evidence-based strategies for increasing inter- and intra-generational mobility and improving economic and social well-being in the United States. The Committee on Population (CPOP) and the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) will convene a two-day workshop that will highlight current research and policy efforts and identify key knowledge gaps and policy-relevant research and data needs on, among other things: the factors that influence economic and social mobility, the mechanisms through which these factors operate, and how these relationships and mechanisms vary across and within different population subgroups (especially race and ethnicity).
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Research and Data Priorities for Improving Economic and Social Mobility: Proceedings of a Workshop
Proceedings
·2022
Since around 1980, fewer Americans than before are doing better than their parents had – that is, more are experiencing downward social and economic mobility in terms of occupational status and income. This trend in downward mobility is occurring amidst high and rising levels of inequality in incom...
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