Committee on Population
Established in 1983 to bring the knowledge and methods of the population sciences to bear on major issues of science and public policy.
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Economic and Social Mobility: New Directions for Data, Research, and Policy
Consensus Study Report
·2025
Intergenerational mobility is an important measure of well-being that underlies a fundamental value: that anyone should be able to succeed economically based on their own merits, regardless of their circumstances. This has been a value held by many Americans throughout U.S. history, even as many obs...
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