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Research and Data Priorities for Improving Economic and Social Mobility Proceedings of a Workshop (2022) / Chapter Skim
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... A number of efforts are currently underway to develop evidence-based strategies for increasing inter- and intragenerational mobility and improving economic and social well-being in the United States. These efforts require an improved understanding of the factors that influence social and economic mobility, the mechanisms through which these factors operate, and how these relationships and mechanisms vary across and within different population subgroups.
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... hope of strengthening the evidence base for policy making and contributing to the efforts of broader communities of stakeholders, practitioners, and policy makers. Kosar Jahani, a program officer with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, introduced workshop participants to the foundation's past efforts in the area of economic mobility and opportunity, as well as the foundation's goals for this workshop.
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... provided substantive context by noting that the workshop is occurring against a backdrop of escalating public concern about rising inequality in the United States. A mounting body of evidence points to high and rising levels of inequality, not only in income, but also in other outcome measures, such as wealth, health, and life expectancy.
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... The next session explored conceptual approaches and frameworks for studying mobility, and the third session identified challenges and opportunities in studying the spatial dimensions of mobility. On the second day of the workshop, speakers addressed research priorities for studying mobility by race, ethnicity, and immigration status, and explored the data infrastructure that is needed to study mobility.
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