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How have children’s chances of moving up changed over time?
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Maximizing the impacts of our schools and colleges on upward mobility
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Our library of papers, presentations, datasets, and replication code
Neighborhoods
Location matters: from income to health to innovation
Racial Disparities
What factors drive racial differences in economic opportunity?
Other Papers by OI Researchers
Other papers related to economic opportunity by OI researchers
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All of our papers and presentations.
Opportunity Atlas
Explore Neighborhood-Level Data to Find Solutions to Your Community’s Challenges.
Social Capital Atlas
See our new estimates of social capital for every school, college, and ZIP code in the United States.
College Mobility Report Cards
Use this tool by the New York Times to explore which colleges and universities are engines of income mobility.
Economic Tracker
Track the economic impacts of COVID-19 on people, businesses, and communities across the United States in real-time.
Migration Patterns
See where children from your hometown moved in adulthood, and how these patterns vary by race and income.
Downloadable Data Repository
All available data from our published research.

Opportunity Insights supports policymakers, practitioners, and communities to use our research and data to develop evidence-based solutions for improved economic mobility.

Expanding Geographic Choice: Creating Moves to Opportunity
Pilot efforts to identify rigorous and scalable strategies to increase families’ access to high opportunity neighborhoods.
Informing Economic Recovery: Economic Tracker
Work to use real-time, granular data to inform equitable and impactful economic recovery from COVID-19.
Understanding Higher Education: CLIMB Initiative
Partnership with colleges and universities to explore and amplify higher education as a critical engine of mobility.
Supporting Local Communities: Charlotte Opportunity Initiative
Collaboration with local community leaders to support data-driven systems change and identify policy areas with the potential to increase upward mobility in Charlotte.

A central part of Opportunity Insights’ mission is to train the next generation of researchers and policy leaders on methods to study and improve economic opportunity and related social problems.

Big Data Course (Harvard)
Open-source materials from Harvard campus course
Big Data Course (Short)
Online course available via edX
Exploring the Opportunity Atlas
A series of instructional videos designed to explain the uses of the Atlas, its underlying data, and how it can help inform solutions to improve economic mobility.
Summer Course
Virtual summer course offered via PREDOC.org

Based at Harvard University, our team of researchers and policy analysts work together to analyze new data and create a platform for local stakeholders to make more informed decisions.

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  • Research
    National Trends
    How have children’s chances of moving up changed over time?
    Education
    Maximizing the impacts of our schools and colleges on upward mobility
    List of All Papers
    Our library of papers, presentations, datasets, and replication code
    Neighborhoods
    Location matters: from income to health to innovation
    Racial Disparities
    What factors drive racial differences in economic opportunity?
    Other Papers by OI Researchers
    Other papers related to economic opportunity by OI researchers
    All Papers
    All of our papers and presentations.
  • Data
    Opportunity Atlas
    Explore Neighborhood-Level Data to Find Solutions to Your Community’s Challenges.
    Social Capital Atlas
    See our new estimates of social capital for every school, college, and ZIP code in the United States.
    College Mobility Report Cards
    Use this tool by the New York Times to explore which colleges and universities are engines of income mobility.
    Economic Tracker
    Track the economic impacts of COVID-19 on people, businesses, and communities across the United States in real-time.
    Migration Patterns
    See where children from your hometown moved in adulthood, and how these patterns vary by race and income.
    Downloadable Data Repository
    All available data from our published research.
  • Policy Initiatives
    Expanding Geographic Choice: Creating Moves to Opportunity
    Pilot efforts to identify rigorous and scalable strategies to increase families’ access to high opportunity neighborhoods.
    Informing Economic Recovery: Economic Tracker
    Work to use real-time, granular data to inform equitable and impactful economic recovery from COVID-19.
    Understanding Higher Education: CLIMB Initiative
    Partnership with colleges and universities to explore and amplify higher education as a critical engine of mobility.
    Supporting Local Communities: Charlotte Opportunity Initiative
    Collaboration with local community leaders to support data-driven systems change and identify policy areas with the potential to increase upward mobility in Charlotte.
  • Courses
    Big Data Course (Harvard)
    Open-source materials from Harvard campus course
    Big Data Course (Short)
    Online course available via edX
    Exploring the Opportunity Atlas
    A series of instructional videos designed to explain the uses of the Atlas, its underlying data, and how it can help inform solutions to improve economic mobility.
    Summer Course
    Virtual summer course offered via PREDOC.org
  • About
    Our Team
    Meet Opportunity Insights.
    Join Our Team
    Join us in our mission to revive the American Dream.
    Media Toolkit
    Helpful resources for journalists.
    Contact
    Get in touch with us.

Data Library

Publicly available data we've produced and replication code

As part of our research studies, we put out publicly available datasets that can be used by other researchers and practitioners to support their own work. These datasets allow you to analyze social mobility and a variety of other outcomes from life expectancy to patent rates by neighborhood, college, parental income level, and racial background. You can search for datasets by geographic level (e.g., Census tracts), by topic (e.g., education), or by the title of the paper. Need technical assistance with these data? Contact us at [email protected]

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers and the Earnings of Young Workers
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  • A Practical Method to Reduce Privacy Loss when Disclosing Statistics Based on Small Samples
  • A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies
  • Affirmative Action, Mismatch, and Economic Mobility after California’s Proposition 209
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  • Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice
  • Do Tax Cuts Produce More Einsteins? The Impacts of Financial Incentives vs. Exposure to Innovation on the Supply of Inventors
  • Expanding and Diversifying the Pool of Undergraduates Who Study Economics: Insights from a New Introductory Course at Harvard
  • How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project STAR
  • Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States
  • Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility
  • Measuring the Impacts of Teachers I: Evaluating Bias in Teacher Value-Added Estimates
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  • Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility
  • Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital
  • Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective
  • Social Capital I: Measurement and Associations with Economic Mobility
  • Social Capital II: Determinants of Economic Connectedness
  • The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014
  • The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data
  • The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
  • The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940
  • The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood Exposure Effects
  • The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility II: County-Level Estimates
  • The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers and the Earnings of Young Workers
  • The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility
  • The Radius of Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Migration and Local Labor Markets
  • The Surrogate Index: Combining Short-Term Proxies to Estimate Long-Term Treatment Effects More Rapidly and Precisely
  • Top Percent Policies and the Return to Postsecondary Selectivity
  • Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States
  • Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation
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