From 1850 to 1950, the influence of parents' backgrounds on their children's outcomes declined. The expansion of public schooling helped level the playing field and increase opportunity for American kids. Read our new article: https://bit.ly/3PIe18a

America is described as a "land of opportunity": a place where children's outcomes aren't tied to those of their parents. But just how mobile has American been? Our new article dives into research on intergenerational mobility from 1850 to 1950. https://bit.ly/3PIe18a

Scholars studying economic opportunity & inclusive growth up to 8 years post-PhD: We invite you to apply to our early career researchers’ workshop in Minneapolis on 11/14. Great opportunity for paper development. Please share with your networks! https://bit.ly/3wiLpn8 

Call for papers! Our annual Institute Research Conference showcases frontier-style research that informs our mission. Advisory board, current & former visiting scholars & FRS colleagues are invited to submit by Sunday, May 3. Submit here: https://bit.ly/3wiLpn8 

For All magazine explores the research, ideas, and people shaping our understanding of opportunity and inclusion in today’s economy. Sign up for your free subscription today and have twice-yearly issues delivered to your door. https://bit.ly/3fbazhS #EconSky

The Institute Working Papers series showcases the ongoing research of scholars at the Institute on issues related to economic opportunity and inclusive growth, serving as a venue to solicit constructive feedback & promote informed debate. Find it here: https://bit.ly/3tPyKGF

Using new data on manufacturing worker flows for U.S. cities in 1970s, Monika Piazzesi, Martin Schneider, & Eran Hoffmann show how quits, hires, and layoffs differ in the growing cities of the South and West versus the shrinking cities of the Northeast and Midwest. https://bit.ly/46A21Ly

Free resource for #econ educators: For All magazine shares research insights & explores the ideas and people shaping our understanding of opportunity and inclusion in today’s economy. Subscribe for free to print or digital: https://bit.ly/3fbazhS

In a new Institute working paper, Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider (Stanford Econ) and Eran Hoffmann @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social) consider how worker flows over the business cycle play out in different U.S. cities. Read the paper: https://bit.ly/46A21Ly

Automation results in a fair amount of labor market churn. As the mix of tasks at different jobs changes, workers will move to jobs that make the best use of their skill set. A recent article looks at how labor market may change as #AI transforms jobs: https://bit.ly/49GzZyO

Over our lives, we face many risks and choices. Read new working paper from @mdenardi.bsky.social, @johanatch.bsky.social, Borella, & Yang for a life-cycle model w/ single and married individuals jointly choosing labor supply and savings from labor market entry until death  https://bit.ly/4anebZ5

Differences in credit scores across race groups emerge early & stick for life. Childhood neighborhood matters even controlling for financial factors. Get briefed on new analysis by Institute advisor Nathaniel Hendren & coauthors.  https://bit.ly/3Zexej8

Over our lives, we face many risks and choices. Read new working paper from @mdenardi.bsky.social, @johanatch.bsky.social, Borella, & Yang for a life-cycle model w/ single and married individuals jointly choosing labor supply and savings from labor market entry until death . https://bit.ly/4anebZ5

Controlling for income, there are strong geographic patterns in credit score & loan payment.  Nathaniel Hendren and co-authors open the opaque world of #CreditScores with a huge linked dataset of credit scores and IRS/Census records.  https://bit.ly/3Zexej8

A new Institute working paper develops a method to study "demographically disconnected" economies--those with no date at which all individuals are concurrently alive--to make #welfare comparisons across individuals from different generations. Read: https://bit.ly/45PRSKp

In new paper, Margherita Borella, @mdenardi.bsky.social, Fang Yang, and @johanatch.bsky.social use a life-cycle model with family structure, labor supply responses, and late-life risks to show bequest motives and medical expense risk are important drivers of aggregate wealth https://bit.ly/4anebZ5

Massive administrative data turn up new insights about variation in credit scores & loan repayment. Read our breakdown of work by Institute advisor Nathaniel Hendren & coauthors, including forms of bias in credit scores and importance of geography.  https://bit.ly/3Zexej8

Welcome to Thomas S. Dee @stanfordeducation.bsky.social, Emi Nakamura Berkeley Economics and Joseph P. Price BYU to the Institute's advisory board!  Our advisors reflect the intellectual breadth and scientific rigor needed to tackle a mission as wide-ranging as the Institute’s https://bit.ly/4qo8O1Y

We are excited to announce 3 new members of our advisory board: Thomas S. Dee @stanfordeducation.bsky.social, Emi Nakamura Berkeley Economics, and Joseph P. Price BYU. Our advisors are an important resource who bridge rigorous research and policy conversations in their work. https://bit.ly/4qo8O1Y

It sounds like science fiction, but making comparisons across individuals who are not concurrently alive is useful for evaluating many kinds of policies. New working paper studies how to conduct such as welfare assessments: https://bit.ly/45PRSKp

"The current discourse around AI mostly centers on the notion of jobs disappearing. But that seems to capture only part of the picture," @lukasfreund.bsky.social & Lukas Mann observe. Read about their research on how jobs may transform and wages respond: https://bit.ly/49GzZyO

“A really striking fact about U.S. cities is that some neighborhoods are very poor compared to others, and the neighborhoods that are poor tend to stay poor." @philadelphiafed.bsky.social Bryan Stuart's research helps explain why: https://bit.ly/3MdPHJH

In their new Institute Working Paper @rebecca-jack.bsky.social, @btimpe.bsky.social, and Danny Tannenbaum provide the most comprehensive picture to date on the length and timing of parental leave-taking in the U.S. https://bit.ly/4aR9gS6

LLMs appear poised to take over the task of processing and analyzing records. How will workers who perform that task and jobs that involve that task respond? Our new article looks at how #AI may change the labor market: https://bit.ly/49GzZyO

What percent of people do you think have worked at a parent’s employer at least once by the age of 30? Read @AlexAlbright’s Inquiring Minds Q&A to find out one of her favorite statistics. https://bit.ly/3KcMxVT

Automation results in a fair amount of labor market churn. As the mix of tasks at different jobs changes, workers will move to jobs that make the best use of their skill set. New article looks at how labor market may change as AI transforms jobs: https://bit.ly/49GzZyO

Understanding the U.S. labor market requires more than just the unemployment rate. Long-term unemployment (joblessness for 27 weeks or more) may offer deeper insights into economic dynamics and worker well-being. We explore in For All: https://bit.ly/42DHhk3

Visiting scholar Yewande Olapade is taking the skills she has learned from supporting @minneapolisfed.bsky.social's large bank “stress test” program to study how the movement of money shapes society. Learn more about her research from @jeffhorwich.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/42I0iSo

Legal environments can affect people's economic choices and outcomes. A new working paper looks at how this applies in the context of couple's decisions about household structure, work, and investment in children. Read the paper: https://bit.ly/4oWvrd6

Paid and unpaid parental leave benefits in the U.S. are often brief, and yet actual leave-taking is even briefer: Average leave taken by mothers lasts 7.2 weeks. For fathers, it's 0.6 weeks. Read the new Institute working paper for more: https://bit.ly/4aR9gS6

What are the costs and benefits of cash assistance programs to households with children? The calculation should include the long-run effects on the skills and development of the children, Institute consultant @jmullins.bsky.social @umn-econ.bsky.social explains. https://bit.ly/3WJHGhC

Econ teachers, inspire your students with our latest Inquiring Minds Q&A. Institute economist @allbriteallday.bsky.social describes what led her to study economics and which econ concepts come up most in everyday life: https://bit.ly/3KcMxVT

One way to think about income inequality is to compare a group’s share of earners to its share of earnings. For ex, men are 51% of earners in IDDA but receive 61% of income (gap of+10 ppts). Hispanic earners are 15.4% but earn 11.5% (gap of -3.9 ppts). https://bit.ly/46XR1Fu

Join the livestream now for reflections on Bill Spriggs’ contributions to economic policy. Institute Director Abigail Wozniak moderates with Neel Kashkari, Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute; William Rodgers III, Kasey Buckles, and Robynn Cox: https://bit.ly/3sRd0d9

#ASSA2026 attendees, join the Institute, LERA & @neaecon.bsky.social#ASSA2026in celebrating the many contributions of Bill Spriggs to economics at two paper sessions plus luncheon plenary. Program committee Abigail Wozniak, Robynn Cox, Jesse Rothstein, and Omari Swinton. https://bit.ly/4pkJN7M

Former visiting scholar Isaac Sorkin develops a method to match high-tenure workers within the same firm as a way to quantify disparities in earnings and employment. https://bit.ly/4iX85Cy 

Automation, inflation, and market power are reshaping labor markets. In wide-ranging Q&A, Institute advisor and Chicago Booth economist Erik Hurst explores what these forces mean for workers, wages, and policy in the long run. https://bit.ly/43d3pSs

The Federal Reserve’s dual mandate is to promote maximum employment + price stability. But how do we know when we've reached max employment? The unemployment rate remains key but other indicators may point to changes in structure of labor market. Read more https://bit.ly/4s1UtKm

In a new Institute working paper, Isaac Sorkin Stanford Econ develops a framework to quantify differences in earnings and employment that are not plausibly due to differences in productivity. Read the paper: https://bit.ly/4iX85Cy

Education plays a large role in human capital mobility. @lalthoff.bsky.social, Harriet Brookes Gray & Hugo Reichard show mothers played a crucial role in shaping children's human capital prior to mass schooling. Their influence declined as more went to school. https://bit.ly/4anugzC

While the costs of a college degree continue to rise, the financial return has plateaued. Research from Leila Bengali, Robert Valletta & Cindy Zhao shows that demand, rather than supply, is the main factor behind this stagnation. Read more: https://bit.ly/4mUUNaZ

How does the choice between marriage and cohabitation relate to children’s educational attainment and intergenerational mobility? New from @efiadamopoulou.bsky.social, @annehannusch.bsky.social, Karen Kopecky, and Tim Obermeier. https://bit.ly/4oWvrd6

Between 2007 and 2008, median household income increased 5.1% in the US. Then came the Great Recession. #IDDA shows the recovery looks different across the states of the Federal Reserve's Ninth District: ND and SD saw substantial growth, WI less so. https://bit.ly/46XR1Fu

Many state governments and private employers have expanded paid or unpaid parental leave benefits. But how much leave do U.S. parents actually take? Not a whole lot, @rebecca-jack.bsky.social, @btimpe.bsky.social, and @dtannenbaum.bsky.social show in a new paper. https://bit.ly/4aR9gS6

American neighborhoods are segregated by income. What does that mean for the future of income inequality, for rich and poor neighborhoods, and for the children who grow up in them? From senior writer @lisacamnermckay.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/3MdPHJH

What would income inequality look like if households did not sort by income and instead were randomly relocated across neighborhoods? Income inequality growth between 1980 and 2010 would be ~1/3rd lower. Our article explains: https://bit.ly/3MdPHJH

#ASSA2026 attendees, join the Institute, LERA & @neaecon.bsky.social#ASSA2026in celebrating the many contributions of Bill Spriggs to economics at two paper sessions plus luncheon plenary. Program committee Abigail Wozniak, Robynn Cox, Jesse Rothstein, and Omari Swinton. https://bit.ly/4pkJN7M

“Aggregate statistics can tell you a lot about the economy that you might not naturally know from your own experience or anecdotes.” Read our latest Inquiring Minds Q&A with Institute economist @allbriteallday.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/3KcMxVT

What factors have shaped Americans’ intergenerational mobility? A new Institute working paper from former visiting scholars @lalthoff.bsky.social and Hugo Reichardt with Harriet Brookes Gay studies the evolution of mobility in the U.S. from 1850 to 1950. https://bit.ly/4anugzC

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at the Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute!