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SCIENCE
卷 356, 期 6336, 页码 398-405出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.aal4617
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- Stanford University
- Harvard University
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
We estimated rates of absolute income mobility-the fraction of children who earn more than their parents-by combining data from U.S. Census and Current Population Survey cross sections with panel data from de-identified tax records. We found that rates of absolute mobility have fallen from approximately 90% for children born in 1940 to 50% for children born in the 1980s. Increasing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rates alone cannot restore absolute mobility to the rates experienced by children born in the 1940s. However, distributing current GDP growth more equally across income groups as in the 1940 birth cohort would reverse more than 70% of the decline in mobility. These results imply that reviving the American dream of high rates of absolute mobility would require economic growth that is shared more broadly across the income distribution.
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