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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.
  • Impact
    Expanding Geographic Choice: Creating Moves to Opportunity
    Pilot effort to identify rigorous and scalable strategies to increase 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
    A partnership to explore and amplify higher education as an engine of mobility.
    Supporting Local Policy: Integrating Mobility Data
    An initiative to support new ways of Integrating mobility data into local decision-making.
  • Courses
    Big Data Course (Harvard)
    Open-source materials from Harvard campus course
    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.
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This page lists all papers released by the Opportunity Insights team. These studies were supported by the Opportunity Insights staff and sponsors listed on our Team page. For questions related to any of these studies or the data associated with them, please email [email protected].

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The Experimental Selection Correction Estimator: Using Experiments to Remove Biases in Observational Estimates
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Standardized Test Scores and Academic Performance at Ivy-Plus Colleges
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Neighborhoods
Social Capital II: Determinants of Economic Connectedness
Raj Chetty, Matthew O. Jackson, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert B. Fluegge, Sara Gong, Federico Gonzalez, Armelle Grondin, Matthew Jacob, Drew Johnston, Martin Koenen, Eduardo Laguna-Muggenburg, Florian Mudekereza, Tom Rutter, Nicolaj Thor, Wilbur Townsend, Ruby Zhang, Mike Bailey, Pablo Barbera, Monica Bhole, Nils Wernerfelt
Nature, Volume 608, Issue 7921, Pages 122-134 | August 2022
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web Full Paper (Nature)
pdf Full Paper (NBER WP)
ppt Slides
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web Social Capital Atlas
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web Brookings Webinar
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web Webinar
Neighborhoods
Social Capital I: Measurement and Associations with Economic Mobility
Raj Chetty, Matthew O. Jackson, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert B. Fluegge, Sara Gong, Federico Gonzalez, Armelle Grondin, Matthew Jacob, Drew Johnston, Martin Koenen, Eduardo Laguna-Muggenburg, Florian Mudekereza, Tom Rutter, Nicolaj Thor, Wilbur Townsend, Ruby Zhang, Mike Bailey, Pablo Barbera, Monica Bhole, Nils Wernerfelt
Nature, Volume 608, Issue 7921, Pages 108-121 | August 2022
pdf Non-technical Summary
web Full Paper (Nature)
pdf Full Paper (NBER WP)
ppt Slides
pdf Slides
web Social Capital Atlas
web Data
web Brookings Webinar
pdf FAQs
web Webinar
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