AREUEA Policy Forum

The AREUEA Policy Forum aims to build bridges between research and policy making in real estate and urban policy.

Panel Discussion: "Families, children, and economic mobility in cities"

May 30, 2024 | 11:30am - 1:00pm ET | AREUEA National Conference | Westin City Center Washington D.C.

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Policy Forum Recorded Video

• Moderator
  • Albert Saiz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Panelists
• Dionissi Aliprantis, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
• Lieke Beekers, University of Tilburg
• Len Costa, Federal Housing Finance Agency
• Lindsey Currier, Harvard University
• Tara Watson, Brookings Institution

Featured Papers

• Childhood Exposure to Violence and Nurturing Relationships: The Long-Run Effects on Black Men
  Aliprantis, Dionissi; Tauber, Kristen (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; New York University)
• Sources of Regional Variation in Intergenerational Mobility
  Lieke Beekers (Tilburg University, NL)

• Urban mobility and the experienced isolation of students
  Cody Cook, Lindsey Currier & Edward Glaeser (Harvard University)

Additional Resources

Published papers:

• Katz, Lawrence F., Jeffrey R. Kling, and Jeffrey B. Liebman. "Moving to opportunity in Boston: Early results of a randomized mobility experiment." The quarterly journal of economics 116, no. 2 (2001): 607-654.
• Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, Nathaniel Hilger, Emmanuel Saez, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, and Danny Yagan. "How does your kindergarten classroom affect your earnings? Evidence from Project STAR." The Quarterly journal of economics 126, no. 4 (2011): 1593-1660.
• Ludwig, Jens, Greg J. Duncan, Lisa A. Gennetian, Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu. "Long-term neighborhood effects on low-income families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity." American economic review 103, no. 3 (2013): 226-231.
• Chetty, Raj, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, and Emmanuel Saez. "Where is the land of opportunity? The geography of intergenerational mobility in the United States." The quarterly journal of economics 129, no. 4 (2014): 1553-1623.
• Chetty, Raj, Nathaniel Hendren, and Lawrence F. Katz. "The effects of exposure to better neighborhoods on children: New evidence from the moving to opportunity experiment." American Economic Review 106, no. 4 (2016): 855-902.
• Chetty, Raj, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones, and Sonya R. Porter. "Race and economic opportunity in the United States: An intergenerational perspective." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 135, no. 2 (2020): 711-783.
• García, Jorge Luis, James J. Heckman, Duncan Ermini Leaf, and María José Prados. "Quantifying the life-cycle benefits of an influential early-childhood program." Journal of Political Economy 128, no. 7 (2020): 2502-2541.
• Chetty, Raj, Matthew O. Jackson, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert B. Fluegge, Sara Gong et al. "Social capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility." Nature 608, no. 7921 (2022): 108-121.
• Card, David, Ciprian Domnisoru, and Lowell Taylor. "The intergenerational transmission of human capital: Evidence from the golden age of upward mobility." Journal of Labor Economics 40, no. S1 (2022): S39-S95.
• García, Jorge Luis, James J. Heckman, and Victor Ronda. "The lasting effects of early-childhood education on promoting the skills and social mobility of disadvantaged African Americans and their children." Journal of Political Economy 131, no. 6 (2023): 1477-1506.
• Bergman, Peter, Raj Chetty, Stefanie DeLuca, Nathaniel Hendren, Lawrence F. Katz, and Christopher Palmer. "Creating moves to opportunity: Experimental evidence on barriers to neighborhood choice." American Economic Review 114, no. 5 (2024): 1281-1337.

•  Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility

Links:

Research institutes and reports

• Brookings Center for Economic Security and Opportunity
• Opportunity Insights
• Moving to Opportunity
• Urban Institute | Upward Mobility Initiative
• The Math Movement

News and Podcasts 

• Raj Chetty's Surprising New Insights On How Children Succeed
• Causal Effects of Neighborhoods
• Cradle-to-Career Pathways Supporting Social and Economic Mobility

The AREUEA Policy Forum aims to build bridges between research and policy making in real estate and urban policy.