https://padlet.com/aliu1220/bdvfgmzv5pw0 Research en-us 2018-11-30 21:18:25 UTC 2026-02-14 05:42:42 UTC hello@padlet.com aliu1220 https://padlet.com/aliu1220/bdvfgmzv5pw0/wish/310231697 There are two reasons why upward mobility varies by place. They're because people are different and the environment itself has a causal effect.]]> 2018-12-02 22:33:52 UTC https://padlet.com/aliu1220/bdvfgmzv5pw0/wish/310231697 aliu1220 https://padlet.com/aliu1220/bdvfgmzv5pw0/wish/310248399 Children who grow up in low-income families will typically earn more than the average child when grown up. Upward mobility also tended to be high in metropolitan areas. Areas with immigrants also tend to have good rates of upward mobility no matter the environment ]]> 2018-12-03 00:52:21 UTC https://padlet.com/aliu1220/bdvfgmzv5pw0/wish/310248399 aliu1220 https://padlet.com/aliu1220/bdvfgmzv5pw0/wish/310257182 Regions that had a larger black population had a lower upward mobility rate.]]> 2018-12-03 01:59:16 UTC https://padlet.com/aliu1220/bdvfgmzv5pw0/wish/310257182 aliu1220 https://padlet.com/aliu1220/bdvfgmzv5pw0/wish/310257689 Larger tax credit on the poor and higher on the rich seemed to only help a little. The size and dispersion of the middle class were big factors in affecting the income mobility. Factors such as better schools, lower crime rate, two-parent households, and less racial segregation had an impact on strong upward mobility.]]> 2018-12-03 02:02:41 UTC https://padlet.com/aliu1220/bdvfgmzv5pw0/wish/310257689 aliu1220 https://padlet.com/aliu1220/bdvfgmzv5pw0/wish/310264891 One of the main idea of the American Dream is that idea that children have a higher standard living than their parents. Others believe that the dream is fading away due to children not nearly making as much as their parents in the 1980s compared to the 1940s. However, Chetty believes that this is false as incomes were extremely low in the 1940s due to it being post World War 2 and a percentage of young adults remain in grad school at age 30 so their current income will be lower, but lifetime is likely to be higher.]]> 2018-12-03 03:03:43 UTC https://padlet.com/aliu1220/bdvfgmzv5pw0/wish/310264891