Income segregation and intergenerational mobility across colleges in the United States

We construct publicly available statistics on parents’ incomes and students’ earnings outcomes for each college in the United States using deidentified data from tax records. These statistics reveal that the degree of parental income segregation across colleges is very high, similar to that across n...

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Published in:The Quarterly journal of economics 2020-08, Vol.135 (3), p.1567-1633
Main Authors: Chetty, Raj, Friedman, John N, Saez, Emmanuel, Turner, Nicholas, Yagan, Danny
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Admissions policies
Change agents
College students
Colleges & universities
Earnings
Educational programs
Elites
Families & family life
Generation
Haushaltseinkommen
Hochschule
Intergenerational mobility
Intergenerational relationships
Lohn
Low income groups
Middle class
Mobilität
Neighborhoods
Parents & parenting
Private colleges & universities
Private schools
Race
Racial differences
Scores
Segregation
Socioeconomic status
Statistics
Student
Students
Test scores
USA
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