Explore new data on changes in mobility by county, birth cohort, race, class and sex.





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The U.S. Census Bureau, in collaboration with Opportunity Insights, today released new data [ [link removed] ] on changes in mobility by county, birth cohort (1978-1992), race, class (parental income) and sex, as well as a new interactive module in the Opportunity Atlas [ [link removed] ].

“Module 2: County & Metro Mobility Trends [ [link removed] ]” includes an additional decade of data and allows users to explore mobility trends in their county to better understand changes over time and within places.

In 2018, in collaboration with Opportunity Insights, the Census Bureau constructed and released the Opportunity Atlas, a comprehensive census tract-level dataset of children’s outcomes in adulthood using data covering nearly the entire U.S. population. For each tract, it provides estimates for children’s outcomes in adulthood such as earnings distributions and incarceration rates by parental income, race/ethnicity and sex. These estimates allow the public to trace the roots of outcomes, such as poverty and incarceration, to the neighborhoods in which children grew up.

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Shifts in Childhood Environment Shrink “Race Gaps,” Widen “Class Gaps”

While still large, the income “race gap” between low-income Black and White Americans narrowed but the “class gap” or the difference in earnings between young adults born to low- and high-income parents widened, according to U.S. Census Bureau and Harvard University research.

The new study focuses on how income mobility evolved between two generations 15 years apart.

It begins with children born in 1978 and ends with those born in 1992. It uses children’s earnings at age 27 as the primary indicator of economic mobility, measured in 2005 for those born in 1978 and in 2019 for those born in 1992.

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* *Working Paper: *Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility [ [link removed] ]
* *Working Paper:* The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility [ [link removed] ]





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