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One pathway through which childhood exposure to local wealth inequality might influence upward mobility of low-income kids is through its association with educational outcomes.

Simulation exercises suggest that childhood exposure to local wealth inequality is more central to upward mobility than exposure to local income inequality itself.

Combining wealth estimates from geowealth-us and mobility data from opportunity insights, I demonstrate a negative association between childhood exposure to wealth inequality and upward income mobility outcomes later in life.

Do you have cited posts, reposts, and responses activated to show up on your following feed? This created a way more active timeline for me. Also added pinned feeds by topic. I like that I can customize the whole experience. 😀

This is based on the geowealth-us data (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and the state democracy index (democracypolicylab.berkeley.edu/state-democr...)

Thanks, Amalie!

Thanks, Meredith!