Increasing Opportunity and Upward Mobility: What We Can Learn from Communities

Grant Year: 2024

in economic opportunity and social mobility. Working with a team of researchers affiliated with Opportunity Insights, she will undertake in-depth interviews with individuals living in communities that have experienced diverging trends in rates of intergenerational mobility to identify plausible hypotheses to explain those trends, including changes in patterns of employment, family formation, and community safety. The project’s findings will be presented in a series of papers and research briefs.