Non-Technical Summaries of Papers

The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940
Raj Chetty, David Grusky, Maximilian Hell, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert Manduca, and Jimmy Narang
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 22910, 2016
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The Effects of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I and II: Childhood Exposure Effects and County-Level Estimates
Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 23001, 2016
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Childhood Environment and Gender Gaps in Adulthood
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Frina Lin, Jeremy Majerovitz, and Benjamin Scuderi
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 106(5): 282-288, 2016
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The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, and Lawrence Katz
American Economic Review 106(4): 855-902, 2016
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Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, Emmanuel Saez, and Nick Turner
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 104(5): 141-147, 2014
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Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, and Emmanuel Saez
Quarterly Journal of Economics 129(4): 1553-1623, 2014
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