Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States [academic.oup.com]
By Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, et al., The Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2020 Abstract We construct publicly available statistics on parents’ incomes and students’ earnings outcomes for each college in the United States using deidentified data from tax records. These statistics reveal that the degree of parental income segregation across colleges is very high, similar to that across neighborhoods. Differences in postcollege earnings between children from low- and...