Opportunity Insights - led by Raj Chetty, John N.Friedman & @NHendren82 - is doing incredible work exploring relationships between social capital & economic mobility using #BigData . #SoCapChat_CI
Check out their interactive Social Capital Atlas! tinyurl.com/SoCapAtlas
Just wow!
Terrific work by Matthew Staiger at Opportunity Insights
Paper here: matthewstaiger.github.io/matthewstaiger…
Amazing presentation by Raj Chetty on Creating Equality of Opportunity and Upward Mobility.
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Yannis Kalatzis Vasileios Margaritis, PhD, MSc, DDS Opportunity Insights Yannis Kalatzis Hello, you can read it here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1683592… Have a good day. 🤖
Blogged: #aspnetcore Logging using Serilog and Azure
damienbod.com/2023/08/21/asp…
#dotnet #serilog #azure #appinsights
“The most highly correlated factor with upward mobility at a neighborhood level was the share of two-parent households in that neighborhood.”
That is a quote from Melissa S. Kearney describing key findings from Raj Chetty’s extensive Opportunity Insights research that unfortunately has…
Ian Rowe Melissa S. Kearney Opportunity Insights Brad Wilcox Richard V. Reeves Bari Weiss Ben Shapiro I was 18 when my dad passed away after a 5-year battle ALS and 23 when my mom took her own life, the 3rd of 4 suicides in our family. Currently writing about that 'two-parent household privilege' in my memoir.
Who gets into college and why does it matter?
This Weds, 7/26, at 2pm Brookings Governance hosts the Opportunity Insights team to hear about their latest research on admissions at 'elite' institutions, followed by a panel discussion
Register & send in questions here: brookings.edu/events/who-get…
Thank you to Professors Raj Chetty of Opportunity Insights, Lawrence Bobo, Prof Dynarski, and Harvard CEPR's Thomas Kane for holding an impactful #AskwithForum / #PIERseminar ! Speakers held a data-driven discussion about college access and generational wealth.
One amazing fact from new Opportunity Insights paper by Chetty John N.Friedman & David Deming is not about admission policy - it's about earlier inequality of opportunity. Take 1k very rich kids, expect 68 to get top SAT scores. Take 1k poor kids, expect 0. Zero. Even 1k…
This week we celebrated the launch of the #SocialFinanceInstitute w/ Deval Patrick, @MASSEOED Sec. Hao, @liselpritzker, Opportunity Insights Raj Chetty, and more. Learn more: socialfinance.org/institute
#economicmobility , #impactinvesting #outcomes
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Graduating from a top college doubles a student’s chances of reaching a leadership position. Elite colleges admit applicants from the top 1% of the income distribution at higher rates, from Opportunity Insights, David Deming, and John N.Friedman nber.org/papers/w31492
Lucía Lamas will also be at Princeton University in September.
She was at #Mont ^2 Econ Lab from 2020 to 2021. Then she joined Opportunity Insights in July 2021.
Beyond the obvious benefit for a child raised in a two-parent household is this Opportunity Insights finding: Boys who grew up in neighborhoods where there were more fathers present — even if not their own — had significantly higher chances of upward mobility, especially for black boys.…
We created a new database covering 20,000 places to: 1) measure the rural advantage, 2) identify who benefits, 3) and explain it.
Check out our new PLURAL index (Johannes H. Uhl): sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Thanks to Opportunity Insights for great income mobility data!
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Just how skewed towards the wealthy are elite college admissions – and what can be done about it?
I'll be on Morning Joe in a few to break down a fascinating new study from Opportunity Insights.